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Nine dead in separate truck-related accidents in RYK, Multan

May 26, 2018

RAHIM YAR KHAN, May 26 (INP): Four persons including a woman and three kids died on late Friday night in Liaquatpur locality here after a container flipped over from a semi-trailer truck onto a house in a nearby shanty settlement. According to rescue and security authorities, the heavy-duty vehicle was travelling on the N-5 National Highway from Lahore to Karachi when the container on it overturned on one of the houses the Tarinda Muhammad Panah village, resulting in six casualties in the same family of which four died and two were injured. The driver fled from the scene. [timed-content-server show="05/27/2018 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]The container was removed with the help of a crane, with the injured shifted to Rural Health Center located in Taranda Muhammad Panah. In a similar incident in Multan's Shujaabad locality, five labourers were killed and two injured after a dumper truck ploughed into the labourers working at the Basti Dad Motorway Interchange. According to police, the labourers were working on the road, due to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi , when the heavy-duty vehicle rammed into the workers. Meanwhile, the wounded were shifted to Nishtar Hospital where they were undergoing treatment. The police arrested the driver of the vehicle. INP/LK/AJ[/timed-content-server]