KARACHI, Dec 31: Reckless driving claimed two lives in the city on Tuesday.

A nine-year-old boy died in a hit-and-run accident in Ibrahim Hyderi. Police said Mohammed Bilal was knocked down by an unknown vehicle in Rehri goth, when he was playing some distance away from his house.

The boy was rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

A young pedestrian was run over by a speeding minibus in Korangi Industrial Area.

Police said that a speeding minibus of route F-21 knocked down Arshad, aged 35, near Bilal Chowrangi.

Police claimed to have arrested the bus driver, Mohammed Ilyas, and impounded the vehicle.

CARJACKING: Twenty-two vehicles — seven cars and 15 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.

Three cars were hijacked. Four others were stolen.

Five motorcycles were hijacked. Ten others were stolen.

Police also claimed on Tuesday to have recovered nine vehicles.

INJURED: Bandits shot and wounded a man in the city on Tuesday.

Bandits shot and injured a middleaged man when he put up resistance to them, in front of Urdu Arts College in the evening.

Police said Mahmood Ghauri, aged 50, was passing through the area when two unidentified armed men, riding a motorcycle, intercepted him and tried to rob him. When he tried to put up resistance to the bandits, they opened fire on him and fled the scene.

The victim suffered a bullet injury to the abdomen. He was admitted to Civil Hospital.

Sources at the hospital described his condition as serious.

ROBBERY: ne robbery and one burglary were committed in the city on Tuesday, police said.

Armed men barged into Ghulam Nabi’s house in Surjani Town, held the occupants of the house hostage at gunpoint and looted gold jewellery and other valuables.

Burglars entered Gohar Khan’s house in Saeedabad on Monday night when the family was sleeping and got away with gold jewellery and other valuables. The family came to know about the burglary on Tuesday morning.