KARACHI, Sept 1: A young man and his elderly father riding a motorbike were crushed to death in Gulshan-i-Maymar on Wednesday, probably by the hit-and-run driver of a dumper when the father and son were returning home, police said.

They said the incident was reported in Gadap Town's area near Ahsanabad where 36-year-old Shamroz and his 63-year-old father Mehroz were going home after regular working hours. Their motorbike was hit by a heavy vehicle, possibly a dumper, the police said.

“It is an isolated area and unfortunately there is no eyewitness to the incident,” said DSP Irfan Bahadur, the area's supervisory police officer.

“People only found their bodies lying along the road with the motorbike that was almost crushed. There were visible signs of a truck or a dumper that ran over the motorbike.”

The two victim members of a family were residents of Khuda Ki Basti and had an auto workshop on the Superhighway.

During Ramazan they went to the workshop after sunrise and got back home well before evening.

Initial findings suggested the police that the two were hit by the heavy vehicle that was approaching from the wrong end of the road.

“Shamroz was riding the 70cc bike bearing registration number KEG-7679,” said Assistant Sub-Inspector Muhammad Pervez associated with the investigation section of the Gulshan-i-Maymar police station.

“It seems that the heavy vehicle hit the bike with such a force that it skidded and went straight ahead at some distance on the road before it was run over by the same vehicle.”

The bodies were handed over to the victims' family after medico-legal formalities at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Shamroz was married with three children. He was the third son among the five children of his father.

The police remained unable to determine and trace the vehicle and its driver.

“The family is obviously in shock and says that they would return after the funeral for the registration of an FIR,” said ASI Pervez of the Gulshan-i-Mayamr police station.“So far we are unable to ascertain the vehicle involved in the incident. This is definitely a road accident, but how that happened is yet to be answered,” the police officer said.

Teenager booked for DHA car crash

The Darakhshan police booked a teenage driver on Wednesday who had hit a group of people standing on a footpath along a road in the Defence area on Tuesday evening and killed four of them, including two women, officials said.“The suspect, Ali Saad Khan Baloch, was a resident of the DHA and was driving the car,” said SHO of the Darakhshan police station Inspector Azam Ali Gopang.

“The car was owned by someone else in the family. We have registered an FIR (446/2010) under Section 320 (punishment for qatl-i-khata by rash or negligent driving) of the Pakistan Penal Code.”

Four people including two women were killed after the 19-year-old driver of the fast-moving car lost the vehicle's control and it rammed into the group of people standing on the footpath on Tuesday evening, police and witnesses said.

The police said the identities of the two men killed in the accident were still unclear and their bodies had been shifted to the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth.