Passer-by killed, two injured as oil tanker overturns.

RAHIM YAR KHAN -- A passer-by was killed and two others injured on Monday when an oil tanker overturned in a bid to save a man near grain warehouse at Chak 5-NP on national highway in Sadiqabad tehsil, some 26 km from here.

Rescue 1122 said Go petroleum company tanker filled with 50,000 litres of petrol was on its way from Karachi to Faisalabad. Near Chak 5-NP, the driver tried to save a passer-by but the oil tanker overturned and petrol started to leak.

A Rescue 1122 team, district administration officials and police reached the spot and...

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