KARACHI, June 5: Five persons, including three young boys, died in separate traffic accidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday.

Police said that three boys, identified as Mahboob, aged 12, Faisal, aged 10, and 13-year-old Shafee, were riding a motorcycle on the S.M. Taufeeq Road when a speeding bus of route 7-C, (JE- 0291) cause them to lost their balance.

As they fell down on the busy thoroughfare, a truck (JE-0213) ran over them.

The three were rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where Mahboob and Faisal were pronounced dead, while Shafee was referred to the JPMC as he had received head injuries.

The three children were residents of Moosa Colony. Shafee had taken out his father’s motorcycle when the father was asleep in the afternoon.

Following the accident, tension gripped the area. However, police removed the two vehicles from the spot to avoid violence.

Another young man died in a road accident in Quaidabad Wednesday morning. Edhi sources said that a motorcyclist, Mohammad Arif, aged 32, was knocked down by a speeding bus (JA- 6299) in Quaidabad.

A young boy was run over by a truck in Malir city. Police said truck driver Mohammad Ali was reversing his vehicle (JT-5979), in Shar Mohammad Goth, when his eight-year-old nephew, Noman, who was playing in the yard, came under the wheels of the truck.

An elderly man was knocked down by a truck in West Wharf.

Police said that a truck was taking a reverse near fisheries when it hit Ibrahim, aged 60.

The victim was shifted to the Civil Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.