Raids on for road rage drivers
OUR STAFF REPORTER
LAHORE–Police were raiding on Sunday to arrest the drivers of two urban buses following the death of a Christian couple in a road rage near the Jail Road underpass on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Saleem Masih and his wife Nusrat Bibi.
The residents of Basir Lines, Mughalpura, were on a bicycle and were heading their workplace in Shah Jammal, when one of the rashly-driven passenger bus of Route No 22 crushed them. Both the buses belonged to the same company.
“One of the two buses tried to overtake the other. As a result, the couple came under its wheels and was crushed,” the police investigating the case said.
The wounded woman died while being shifted to a hospital, while her husband was pronounced as dead upon arrival at the Emergency Ward of the Services Hospital, they added.
Civil Lines SP (Operations) Umer Saeed Malik said that the buses -- LRC-3723 and LRC-5626 -- have been impounded. An FIR (407/11) under section 322/427 and 34 of the PPC has been lodged against both the drivers, he added. No arrest was, however, made till the filling of this report.
(The Nation)
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