THATTA, Feb 8: Three people were killed and two injured in a road accident near Jherruk on Sunday.

A pickup-hit a motorcycle coming from opposite direction, overturned and plunged into a ditch.

As a result motorcyclists Dildar Khaskheli and Abdul Ghaffar died on the spot and pick-up driver Jafar Soomro and occupants Jan Mohammed Babbur and Ali Mohammed were injured.

Soomro died while being taken to a hospital.