One killed, five injured in road accident near Shikarpur

SHIKARPUR:A motorcyclist was killed and five others were injured in a traffic accident on National Highway within the limit of Sultankot police station, near here on Friday evening.

According to rescue sources, two speeding motorcycles collided with a rickshaw on Shikarpur-Jacobabad section of National Highway. As a result, Abdul Jabbar, 55, son of Abdul Sattar Bakhrani, a resident of village Hazar Khan Bakhrani, a woman and five others were injured.

The area police with the help of locals shifted them to a nearby hospital for treatment, where Jabbar succumbed to his injuries. The body was handed over to his heirs after completing necessary medico-legal formalities from RHC Sultankot.