An oil tanker overturned onto a car near Karachi’s Baloch Colony Bridge, resulting in the death of the car’s occupant. The deceased, identified as 48-year-old Asad Ali Zaidi, a senior editor at a private TV channel, was trapped in the vehicle for several hours.
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Heavy machinery was required to remove the car from beneath the tanker, with rescuers struggling due to a large crowd of onlookers. Traffic police closed the bridge from Qayyumabad to Baloch Colony to assist in the rescue, which took three hours.
The tanker, which was carrying kerosene oil, posed a fire risk, and the fire brigade was present throughout the operation. The driver of the tanker fled the scene after the incident. Once the tanker was emptied of its cargo, it was finally removed, and the body was taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
