{"id":70212,"date":"2025-04-10T10:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70212"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:04:58","slug":"several-dumpers-torched-in-karachi-after-reckless-driver-hit-motorbikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi\/several-dumpers-torched-in-karachi-after-reckless-driver-hit-motorbikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Several dumpers torched in Karachi after reckless driver hit motorbikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The enraged citizens torched at least nine <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi-traffic-police-to-install-cameras-on-dumpers-trucks\/\">dumper trucks<\/a> at different locations in Karachi on Wednesday evening after a speeding heavy vehicle crushed two motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>The protest turned violent when a speeding dumper, allegedly driven by a teenager, hit two motorbikes near the Nagan Chowrangi Flyover, injuring the riders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"384\">The motorcyclist injured in the Nagan Chowrangi accident was identified as 23-year-old Daniyal, who is currently receiving medical treatment at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>As per details, the situation escalated when a high-speed dumper recklessly ran over the protesters who were demonstrating against the earlier incident at the Nagan Chowrangi flyover, hitting multiple vehicles in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Police intervened just in time to save the driver, identified as Nizamullah, and secure the dumper.<\/p>\n<p>No loss of life was reported in the incident. However, the incident angered citizens, who set fire to several dumper trucks on the same thoroughfare.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that at least nine vehicles were set on fire, including five dumpers at the Powerhouse roundabout, four water tankers on 4K roundabout, and Baba Morr in Surjani Town.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames with support from police units.<\/p>\n<p>A large police contingent was deployed in the affected areas to bring the situation under control.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that they were also collecting information from hospitals to determine if there were any unreported injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The enraged citizens torched at least nine dumper trucks at different locations in Karachi on Wednesday evening after a speeding heavy vehicle crushed two motorbikes. The protest turned violent when a speeding dumper, allegedly driven by a teenager, hit two motorbikes near the Nagan Chowrangi Flyover, injuring the riders. The motorcyclist injured in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,14811],"tags":[306,27685,27686],"class_list":["post-70212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-karachi","tag-karachi","tag-karachi-dumpers","tag-nagan-chowrangi-flyover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70214,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70212\/revisions\/70214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}