Two people died on Saturday, while another was injured in separate incidents in Karachi when the number of deaths from traffic accidents throughout the metropolis increased.
According to the officer of the Moachko Police Station (Sho) Faisal Latif, a man was killed and another critically wounded after a dumper (loaded truck) hit them on the main road of the Hub river early in the morning.
While talking with Dawn.comHe said the victims were traveling when a “apparently recklessly driven” hit them from one side near the Quetta Mauna hotel.
Sho Latif said the driver had escaped from the place along with the truck, adding that the injured men were transported to the Trauma Center of the Karachi Civil Hospital (CHK). Shah Mohammed, 45, was declared dead after arriving at Chk, while Imran, who is in critical condition, was admitted for treatment.
Police have registered a case against the unknown driver about the complaint of the cousin of the late Mohammed Iqbal, the officer said, added that the deceased had arrived from Pishin in Baluchistan in Hub Chowki.
“He arrived in Karachi to his relatives in the Naval neighborhood in Rickshaw when the accident occurred,” said the sho.
In a separate incident, an unidentified young man died in an incident of outrage on the main national road in Malir.
Shah Latif Town Pailce Sho Raja Abbas said Dawn.com That the man in about 30 years was crossing the road near the Anwar Baloch hotel when an unidentified vehicle hit him.
The man was taken to the Jinnah postgraduate medical center, where he was declared dead. Sho Abbas said his identity could not be determined immediately.
The rules that restrict the movement of heavy vehicles were recently implemented in the metropolis amid the growing traffic accidents that involve Dumpers and Petroleros and protests over the death of citizens.
Last month, the provincial government prohibited the entry of heavy vehicles into the city during the day, only allowing them to operate from 11 pm to 6 am
However, exemptions were granted to trucks that transport water, oil products, medications, meat and other essential goods.
The Sindh government has also made it mandatory that all heavy vehicles in Karachi have a physical conditioning certificate amid the growing number of traffic accidents that involve Dumper trucks.
Rights activists and civil society members said yesterday that the growing number of fatal traffic accidents in the city and the poor state of the application of the traffic law are human rights violations, that the State has not been able to safeguard.
Last month, provincial legislators belonging to the MQM-P criticized the Traffic Police for their “failure” of controlling heavy vehicles that claimed more than 80 lives only in January.
Four people, including a 10 -year -old boy, were killed, and one was injured in three separate accidents in Karachi yesterday.
