Two die in road mishap

LAHORE - Two youth died and three others including two girls sustained multiple injuries when their car struck into a wall at Khayaban-e-Iqbal in Satukatla police precincts in the wee hours of Tuesday. The deceased were identified as 28-year-old Abdullah, son of a Maj (r) Mehdi Hussain, a resident of 394-Abbas Block, Mustafa Town, and his friend 27-year-old Imran Warraich. Police investigators revealed that the victims were on their way to their residences on a car after attending a wedding ceremony at Raiwind. The police said that a tyre of the car burst and it collided with the wall near Shaukat Khanum Hospital at about 3:40am. According to police, the other victims and guests of Abdullah including Umar, Sobia and Ayesha also suffered severe injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctors pronounced Imran and Abdullah dead.

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