In another accident that involved a heavy vehicle in Karachi, a tow truck claimed the lives of two young people in the New Chali area on Saturday night, according to police officers and rescue services.
The city has recently witnessed an increase in traffic accidents, especially that they involve heavy vehicles, including Dumpers and water oil tankers, which killed almost 500 people and the injured 4.879 were in 2024, according to hospital data.
On Wednesday night, a total of nine dumperadores and oil tankers were burned in angry mobs in Karachi, near the main road, which led Chowrangi 4 k after a heavy vehicle hit a bicycle rider, wounding it in the area of northern Karachi.
The Mithadar Police Station Officer, Naseer Ahmed Tanoli Sunrise that a trailer killed two men who rode a motorcycle in Sharea Liaquat.
“The trailer came from II Chundrigar Road to the old center of the CIA while the victims were heading from the Techno city using Altof Husain Hali Road,” said Sho Tanoli.
He added that the trailer hit the victims when they reached the new Rotonda de Chali, dying at the scene.
The bodies were transferred to the Trauma Center of Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Karachi Hospital for legal formalities.
“The victims were identified as Zaid Ali and Noor Mohammed Aslam,” said the police officer, added that the police arrested a wandering driver, namely, Abid Ali and confiscated the heavy vehicle.
He said it seemed to be a case of reckless and negligent driving. However, the driver, in his statement, said that the footprints of the footprints were under the wheels of the trailer while they were involved in excessive speed.
The Mithadar Police has registered a first information report under section 320 of the Pakistan Criminal Code on the Yasen complaint, maternal uncle of the deceased. He said the victims were close and resident relatives of Edu Lane in the Kalri area of Lyari.
Arrived on Thursday night, a tank truck was burned by an angry crowd in northern Nazimabad. Shahrah-I-noor Jehan Sho Abid Shah said Sunrise that the oil driver had hit a motorcyclist near Popsy Nagar. The rider of the bicycle was injured, but the oil driver fled the scene along with the heavy vehicle.
However, a group of 10-12 people persecuted him and intercepted him near ChowRangi of five stars. Initially they attacked the driver and damaged the vehicle’s windows. From then on, they set fire to the heavy vehicle.
With the recent traffic accidents in Karachi that made the enraged mobs fire heavy vehicles that were responsible for them, the president of the National Party of Awami (ANP), the president of the Shahi chapter, Shahi, together with the president of MQM-P, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, tried to calm the situation in saying that the current problems that rise to the city. The road mishaps are not an administrative failure, not the product of an ethnic problem, on Saturday.
On Friday, Senior Minister of Sindh, Sharjeel Inam Memon, said the provincial government had formed an investigation committee to investigate the causes of traffic accidents that had suddenly increased since last November in the metropolis.
Speaking at a press conference, he said that since November 2024, 603 people had been killed in traffic accidents, 160 of them involving heavy vehicles.
