Three teenage boys were killed and a fourth was critically injured while they were allegedly racing their motorcycles.According to Steel Town SHO Akram Arain, the incident took place when the boys riding two motorcycles were hit by a car in the Gulshan-e-Hadeed area.
Rescuers transported the casualties to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced 16-year-old Ovais, Hasnain, 17, and Zubair, 17 dead. Obaid, 22, was said to battling for his life.
The officer said the incident took place because they were racing their bikes in the middle of the road.It has become a common practice that groups of young motorcycle riders gather on different roads and then start showing off their ‘skills’, endangering their own lives as well as those of others.
Meanwhile, The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) claimed to have arrested a man and his son allegedly involved in the theft of expenses watches.According to the SIU, the suspects were arrested during a raid conducted in the Saddar area.
The police also claimed recovering expensive watches from the possession of Tanvir and his son Shabbir, which they had stolen from a shop in Boat Basin.