Two rashly-driven buses kill woman, her son

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Faisalabad: A woman and her son were hit to death while three persons, including her spouse, sustained serious injuries as two rashly-driven buses crashed into a motorcycle and a loader rickshaw in Mansoorabad police limits.

A Rescue 1122 spokesman said here on Sunday that drivers of two passenger buses were recklessly racing on Sheikhupura Road when they hit a motorcycle and a loader rickshaw near the Gattwala Bridge. As a result, 40-year-old Shumaila Arshad and her 12-year-old son Abdul Hadi received serious injuries and died on the spot whereas Rescue 1122 shifted 42-year-old Arshad, 22-year-old Abdul Rehman and 22-year-old Usman to Allied Hospital-I in a critical condition after providing them first aid.

The police took the bodies into custody while an investigation is ongoing, he added.