Four friends died in a road accident when their car fell into an irrigation channel called Naseer Canal in the Tando Allahyar district on Monday night, police said.
They were traveling in a car that came from Karachi when their car fell to the channel probably due to speeding, said Mirpurkhas Senior Police Superintendent (SSP) Salem Shah Dawn.com.
“The bodies were transferred to Karachi last night after they were taken,” he said.
The deceased were identified as Abdul Ahad Sheikh, son of Mohammad Aslam Sheikh 23, Sameer, son of Rizwanuddin Siddiqui 21 Ali Shan, son of Mohammad Iqbal 26 and Aposel, son of Mohammad Azam Farooqui 20.
Ameen Gul Ord, spokesman for Tando Allahyar police, said Abdul Ahad was a resident of Mirpurkhas and had moved to Karachi.
He said he would meet his cousin, Asfand Leghari in Mirpurkhas with his friends in a rented car.
He said that Ali Shan was a resident of Sialkot Punjab but that he lived in Karachi.
All resided in the same neighborhood of the metropolis.
The locals told the Police that Sameer and Aparel were also residents of the Mirpurkhas satellite city, but their families had moved to Karachi.
The local divers jumped to the channel to recover the bodies of all friends.
The incident was widely covered on social media platforms by local residents.
One of them, Punhal Narejo spoke with a diver whose store was located on the bridge over the canal.
He said the car fell to the channel instead of crossing the bridge due to a “design failure” on the road.
According to SSP, the road that led to the bridge was a double car between Mirpurkhas and Tando Allahyar, but a single road bridge was built on the canal.
