A minor girl was crushed to death due to reckless driving of the two passenger buses that were racing to overtake each other on main MA Jinnah Road, here on Friday. Father of the deceased, however, sustained wounds in the macabre mishap. As soon as the racing buses crushed 6-year-old Sakina, the only child of her parents, people gathered there got enraged, and incinerated the buses near Tibet Centre. Eyewitness said that angry people did not countenance relevant officials and firefighters to come in to douse the blaze.
Meanwhile, police rounded up as many as 11 persons on charges of arson and vandalism. Police also claimed to have arrested a bus driver, identified as Muhammad Salim and the bus owner Muhammad Azam. The body and injured were taken to hospital for medico-legal formalities and treatment, respectively. The reckless driving on main thoroughfares has become order of the day while traffic police cops fail to control such violators of traffic laws.