KARACHI: A woman and two other members of a family were killed in a hit-and-run accident involving a dumper truck on Shaheed-i-Millat Road on Sunday, said Ferozabad police.

They added that the victims were travelling on a motorbike when an unidentified dumper-truck hit them. The truck driver escaped with the vehicle.

The victims suffered critical injuries and were taken to hospital, where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.

The deceased were identified as Noor Saba, 60, Abdul Shakoor, 55, and Abdul Ghafoor, 18. Area SHO Aurangzeb Khattak said the victims were members of a same family.

They were residents of Bilal Colony in Korangi.

The officer added that apparently the truck driver was driving the vehicle at a high speed and hit the motorcycle. The three victims died on the spot.

The police investigators with the help of closed-circuit television camera footages and witnesses were trying to trace and arrest the truck driver.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2020

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