As a result of the accident, the doors and walls of the house collapsed.
Karachi: Water Tanker No. GLT-8917 rammed into a house near Baldia Gulshan Ghazi Block D Iqbal Hospital in Etihadtown area, as a result of which one person who was sleeping in the house was killed and 3 persons including minor and teenage girls were injured.
As a result of the accident, the doors and walls of the house collapsed.
The police and rescue teams, with the help of local residents, removed the dead and injured from under the tanker and the debris and transferred them to the civil hospital through hidden ambulances.
According to the police, the deceased person was identified as 40-year-old Amir son of Tawfiq, while the injured included 45-year-old Nasir Hussain son of Tawfiq, his brother, his two-year-old daughter Manahil and 13-year-old Raheela Dokhtar Ali. are,
According to the residents of the area, most of the streets in the area are uphill. At the time of the incident, a water tanker came to pour water into a house. The driver stopped the tanker and placed a cement block under the tire to stop it. During this, the block placed under the tire broke and the tanker went downhill in the street.
Its speed increased and the tanker entered the house located on the slope. At the time of the accident, there were 6 people in the house, including women and children, out of which one died, three were injured, while two people were safe.
The deceased and the injured in the accident belonged to Sialkot, the deceased was unmarried and worked as a mason, the injured Raheela was a guest in the house.
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