Five people — including the son of the late Allama Hassan Turabi — were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between an SUV and a car on the Indus Highway near Manjhand in Jamshoro district on Friday.
Police identified the deceased as Zain Turabi, 22, Syed Ali Jan Rizvi, 30, Khuwaja Ali Kazim, 15, Khowaja Nadeem, 25, from Gilgit Baltistan, and the 35-year-old driver Abdul Ghani Mangrio. The victims were returning to Karachi after attending a religious function in Khairpur.
The other vehicle was carrying devotees from Lahore to the shrine of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan. All the six people on board the vehicle were wounded. They have been identified as Bilal Niazi, Ahsan Niazi, Majir Niazi, Muhammad Ishaq Niazi, Aziz Bhatti, and Muhammad Shabbir.
Two of the injured were shifted to Liaquat University Hospital in Hyderabad in critical condition. Meanwhile, Shia Ulema Council's Ali Muhammad Shakir transported the bodies to Karachi.
Rescue 1122 teams from Hyderabad as well as a district police team rushed to the site but their arrival was too late, owing to long distance and unavailability of trauma centres along the highway, to save any life.
Witnesses said that the deadly collision happened because one of the vehicles involved was coming from the wrong side. The crash was so powerful that the car was reduced to a heap of mangled metal, while the SUV's front part was also badly smashed.
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