By By our correspondent
Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed separately in road accidents in different parts of the city on Saturday while the body of young man was also found from the Jam Sadiq Bridge.
In the first incident, an eight-year-old boy, identified as Waheed, son of Abdul Jabbar was wounded when a speeding truck hit him outside his residence in Machar Colony in the limits of Docks police station, police said.
The Docks police officials said that Wahid was rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) where he succumbed to his injuries.
In another incident, 32-year-old Saeed Anwar, a resident of Korangi, was on his way home on his motorbike when a minibus hit him. The Bilal Colony police said that Anwar, an employee of a pharmaceutical company, died on the spot. His body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for legal formalities. No case was registered till the filing of this report.
In a separate incident, a 35-year-old motorcyclist, Azhar Karim was hit by a speeding vehicle on Mirza Adam Khan Road within the limits of Kalakot police station, police said.
He was taken to the hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. Police have registered an FIR against the unknown driver and handed the body over to the family residing in Lyari.
Meanwhile, the Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) police said that they found the body of an unidentified youth with two gunshot wounds from the bushes near the Jam Sadiq Bridge. The body was shifted to the Edhi morgue, Sohrab Goth after autopsy.
wildlife minister’s nephew killed while cleaning pistol: The nephew of Sindh Wildlife Minister Dr Daya Ram Essrani, identified as 23-year-old Ram Chand, died accidentally on Saturday morning when a bullet hit him in the head while he was cleaning a pistol at his house in Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
Chand was taken to the National Medical Center (NMC) near Kalapul, where doctors pronounced him dead and handed over the body to his family.
“The incident took place at house no. 46, street-13, Khayaban-e-Mujahid in DHA,” Clifton DSP, Salam Hussain, told The News.
He said that Chand’s family informed the police when they sent the body to their ancestral town near Kotri for incineration. “We have not seen the body, so we are only relying on the report of the family of the deceased,” DSP Hussain added.
He further said that the police had inspected the place of the incident but had found no clue of any fatal accident. “There was no spilled blood,” DSP Hussain said, adding that the matter will be investigated after Chand’s family returns to Karachi.