SUKKUR: A young man and boy were killed while a woman was injured on Sunday when a car hit a motorcycle near Malheer stop within the limits of C-Section police station in Kandhkot.

All the victims were riding the motorcycle that was hit by the speeding car.

Two of the deceased youth was identified as Asif Ali and the boy as Nasrullah Bangwar who died on the spot.

The name of the woman, who sustained critical injuries, could not be known immediately.

Police said they reached the spot and shifted the bodies and the wounded woman to the Kandhkot Civil Hospital.

The bodies were handed over to the heirs after medico-legal formalities, they said, adding that the injured woman was under treatment at the hospital.

No case of the incident was registered till the filing of the report.

In another incident, a man riding a donkey cart sustained injuries on Sunday when a speeding trailer hit him on a section of the National Highway within the limits of the Abad police station in Jacobabad.

Local police rushed to the scene and took the trailer driver in custody.

The wounded man, Ayoub Kaheri, died while he was being transported to a hospital. He was a resident of the DC Colony, police said. Doctors handed over the body to the heirs after completion of a postmortem examination. Sources said the police kept the driver in the lock-up.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2024

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