DUBAI — Five Pakistani nationals were killed in a road accident in Bur Dubai at 2am yesterday. A Pakistani national who was driving a BMW car with Dubai plate number 59822, reportedly lost control over his speeding vehicle and hit the fence of the tunnel in the direction of Garhoud Bridge. As a result, the car overturned and caught fire, Brigadier Abdul Jalil Mehdi, deputy director of Preventive Security Department said. By the time the rescue and Civil Defence team arrived on the spot, the driver and four other travellers in the car, all Pakistanis, had been charred to death.
The police removed their bodies from the car and sent them to the General Department of Forensic Science.