Karachi, Jun 30 (PTI) At least seven persons, including four children, were killed on Sunday when an overspeeding coaster crashed into a trailer truck and overturned in Pakistan's Sindh province.

The accident occurred in the provincial capital Karachi when the trailer truck took a U-turn and the coaster, coming from behind, rammed into it and overturned, police said.

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A senior police official said the deceased included four children and two women of a family who were going to Hawksbay Beach for a picnic.

“The coaster they were travelling in overturned after colliding with the trailer,” he said. The driver of the trailer fled after the accident.

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The six wounded also included two children, SHO Mauripur Chaudhry Tufail said.

Emergency responders provided immediate medical assistance to the injured. The bodies of the deceased were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for further legal procedures.

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah expressed grief at the lives lost in the incident.

In a statement, he directed the administrations of CHK, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center and SMBB Institute of Trauma to provide the best treatment available to the injured passengers.

He also summoned a detailed report from Sindh Inspector General Ghulam Nabi Memon, ordering police to take strict measures to prevent traffic accidents.

The (driving) licences of drivers who speed up (vehicles) even on busy roads should be suspended. Speeding has wrecked joyful homes along with (taking lives of) innocent children,” the statement quoted CM Shah as saying.

On May 23, a jeep accident in the Liran village of Abbottabad resulted in six deaths and seven injuries.

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