Five perish in two road accidents
High court advocate, two colleagues among casualties
March 03, 2021
OKARA:
Five people including a couple were killed while one person sustained serious injuries in two accidents in Okara on Tuesday.
Police shifted the bodies to a hospital and were investigating the traffic accidents. According to the police report, the first accident took place near GT Road, Akhtarabad Bridge at around seven in the morning when Advocate Sarwar Javi, a member of Depalpur Bar Association, was traveling in a car with his colleagues Younis and Hussain. On his way to Lahore High Court, he was hit by a van coming from the opposite direction. Sarwar and both his colleagues were killed on the spot. The accident resulted in the car being destroyed. Sheikh Khalid, a resident of Bahria Town Lahore, was injured. He was travelling in the van. He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.