10 perish in two road accidents in Sindh

SUKKUR: As many as 10 people, including a woman and three infants, were burnt in two separate tragic road accidents here on Thursday. Four people, including a woman and two infants, were burnt and killed and 15 others sustained injuries when a passenger wagon caught fire following an explosion in the CNG cylinder. The villagers of the Khuda Bakhash Maitlo of Khairpur had hired a wagon to visit the shrine of Sehwan Sharif. As the wagon reached Lal Bakhash Kandhro village near Gambat, the CNG cylinder exploded and a massive fire engulfed the wagon.

Following the explosion, some people managed to save themselves by jumping from the burning wagon, but three including a woman and two infants remained trapped and died.

They were subsequently identified as Namaat Khatoon, infants Majida and Sajida. Later one of the injured Muhammed Kamil Maitlo also died during treament at the GIMS Hospital. The injured included Tahira, Abdul Samad, Kainat, Shumaila, Farhan, Hooran, Israr and others who are undergoing treatment at the GIMS and Civil Hospital, Khairpur,

The Deputy Commissioner Khairpur, Javeed Ahmed Jaghirani, Chairman Zila Council Khairpur, Shahryar Khan Wasan and others visited the hospital and directed the MS Khairpur and GIMS to ensure medical facilities to the victims. The Deputy Commissioner Khairpur later ordered a crackdown against the transport plying on CNG kits. The district management teams were also directed to instruct the CNG station owners not to provide CNG to any passenger vehicle.

In another tragic accident, six people including two girls were burnt, when a massive fire engulfed two vehicles following their collision at Loni Fort in Thana Bola Khan, Jamshoro. According to the Motorway Police a Pajero jeep and a car collided which led to blowing up of the CNG cylinder that destroyed the vehicles.

Six bodies including that of an infant were removed from the wreckage of the vehicles, while an infant was found alive. They were shifted to Jamshoro Hospital, where till the filling of these lines none of the victims could be identified.