The festive occasion of Eid shopping turned into a tragedy for a local family when two teenage brothers were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a trailer.
The victims, residents of the Azizabad area, were identified as school-going youths, one a ninth-grade student and the elder brother in the tenth grade.
The fatal incident took place late on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday near the Karimabad Furniture Market. According to law enforcement officials, the driver of the heavy vehicle fled the scene immediately after the accident. A search has been launched to arrest the absconding driver.
Authorities confirmed that the bodies of both deceased teenagers were moved to a nearby hospital for medico-legal procedures.
In another unrelated traffic incident on the same day, another motorcyclist lost his life near the Baloch Colony bridge after being struck by a tire that detached from a passing tanker.