Seven killed in accident near rural Thatta

Woman among dead; injured taken to Hyderabad because of lack of trauma facility

HYDERABAD:

Seven people, including a woman, died and 15 others sustained injuries in a collision between a passenger van and a truck near the town of Jhirk on the stretch of the National Highway between Hyderabad and Thatta on Thursday.

Police said that the passenger van was headed to Thatta from Hyderabad, when it met with an accident in the Thatta district. The injured were taken to Liaquat University Hospital in Hyderabad because of lack of trauma facilities in Jhirk.

The deceased were identified as Nadir Ali Brohi of Kambar-Shahdadkot, Ghulam Hussain Memon of Jamshoro, Zulfiqar Ali Rajpar and Hajra Rahujo of Hyderabad, Muhammad Ali of Lodhran, Punjab and Mukhtiar Ali.

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Local residents complained that the highway near Jhirk witnessed frequent accidents but the government neither took measures to regulate the traffic nor any health facility in Jhirk had any equipment for trauma patients.

The locals told the media that they shifted the injured to the health centre in Jhirk in their private vehicles and in police mobiles because no ambulance was available in the town.

According to the residents, lives could have been saved if the injured were given proper medical treatment in time. The police have registered a first information report of the accident.