KARACHI: Rescue workers on Friday recovered the body of a minor boy from the Lyari river, where they resumed their search operation for a third consecutive day.
Three-year-old Shahid Razzaq drowned in the Lyari river near Sohrab Goth on Wednesday evening while watching animals passing along its bank, the family said.
An Edhi Foundation spokesperson said in a statement that the strong water current had apparently carried the body away from the spot where the boy drowned.
Edhi volunteers launched a search operation and later found his body floating in the river near Gulbahar.
Two die in hit-and-run accident
Two people were killed when an unidentified vehicle hit their motorcycle on the Superhighway.
The victims were travelling towards Hyderabad when the vehicle hit their motorcycle opposite Bismillah Market. They sustained critical injuries and were taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where Abbas Mumtaz, 16, and an unidentified man in his early 30s were pronounced dead.
The accident occurred at around 5pm. The driver fled the scene along with the vehicle.
In the second incident, a motorcyclist, identified as Qasim Khan, 65, was killed when an unidentified vehicle hit him near the Sunday Bazaar in Ayub Goth, New Karachi. His body was shifted to the ASH.