Three killed in road accidents

Pakistan Telegraph (IANS) Sunday 5th February, 2012

Three people were killed in three different road accidents in the national capital, police said Sunday.

An unidentified man, in his mid-thirties, was killed in a hit-and-run accident near India Gate past midnight Saturday. "The man was hit by an unidentified speeding vehicle on Shahjahan Road around 12.55 a.m. He died on way to hospital," a police official said.

Manbir Singh Pundir, 32, died when his bike was hit by a speeding vehicle on the AIIMS flyover in front of Kidwai Nagar East in south Delhi around 8 a.m. Sunday. He was a resident of New Ashok Nagar in east Delhi.

"We had received a call in the police control room reporting that an accident victim was lying unconscious on the flyover," said a police official. He was declared dead on arrival at hospital.

In the third incident, Gulshan, 18, a resident of Moti Bagh, was killed when a private bus hit his bike near Rao Tula Ram Marg in Delhi Cantonment area around 7 p.m. Saturday. Bus driver Purbhat was arrested for rash driving.