Muet staffers’ deaths: ‘Police oversight behind road accidents’

HYDERABAD: The vice-chancellor (VC) of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro has held the National Highway and Motorway Police responsible for the recent deaths of two varsity employees in a road accident. Addressing a condolence reference at the varsity on Friday, VC Aslam Uqaili complained about the frequency of such accidents. “There are three universities in Jamshoro and around 20,000 students and employees travel daily between Jamshoro and Hyderabad [through the Super Highway via Hyderabad Bypass and the Indus Highway via Kotri Barrage],” he said. “Sadly road accidents have become a routine occurrence.” MUET’s electrical engineering department’s 25-year-old lab technician Zaigham Abbass Memon and 30-year-old IT assistant Qaimdin Magsi died when a truck collided with their car on June 29. Two other staffers, Imran Sehto and Saddam Hussain, were injured in the accident. “The highway police’s lack of enforcement of [traffic] rules causes these accidents,” claimed Uqaili.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 2^nd, 2016.