Six killed in DI Khan accidents

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Six persons, including a woman, were killed in two separate road accidents in the district on Saturday, police said.

They said that Muhammad Zubair along with his sister Tasleem Bibi and her three-year-old daughter Aeysha Bibi were on their way to Asifabad locality when their bike collided with another motorcycle on Dayal Road at Asifabad.

Muhammad Zubair, his niece Aeysha and Muhammad Abid and two-year-old Haroon were killed on the spot while Tasleem Bibi and Naeed Bibi sustained injuries.

The dead and injured were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital where one of the injured women succumbed to her injuries. In another incident, Luqman Shah Sherani was on way home in Daraban from Zhob when a truck hit his bike, leaving him dead on the spot. The trucker escaped the scene while the police registered the case against the unidentified driver.