HYDERABAD: Three people were dead and two others were injured, when a truck loaded with gravel fallen over a car at Jamshoro Toll Plaza on Friday.
According to the police, the truck fell over the nearby car after losing its balance at the Toll Plaza Jamshoro. As a result, three people, who were going to Lahore from Karachi were dead.
The rescue teams reached the spot and shifted bodies to the Civil Hospital Hyderabad.
Earlier in March, a man was killed and another man was seriously injured in a road mishap within the limits of the New Faujdari police station in Shikarpur.
According to police sources, two young men riding a bike were on their way to somewhere when a speeding Mazda pickup hit them from the backside, as a result, Fawad Hussain Katpar, aged 35 and Abdul Hafeez Soomro, 40 were seriously injured.
The injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital Shikarpur where one of the injured, Fawad, succumbed to his injuries, while another injured was referred to the Sukkur hospital due to his grave condition. The area police have confiscated the Mazda. However, the driver of the vehicle managed to escape.
The body was handed over to his heirs after a medico-legal formality from the Civil Hospital Shikarpur, said police. Police also registered an FIR against the vehicle’s driver and started further investigation.