LAHORE: A Multan court on Tuesday granted police three-day physical remand of a suspect accused of killing a 15-year-old boy in the city.

The suspect has been accused of hitting the victim, who used to work for him, with his car. The suspect was arrested yesterday and presented before Judicial Magistrate Saadia Aslam on Tuesday.

Police requested the judge for the suspect’s 14-day physical remand for investigation. However, the judicial magistrate granted them his three-day remand.

Later, Multan City Police Officer (CPO) Akhtar Farooq said while speaking to the media that raids were being conducted for the arrest of a second suspect.

“We all are in deep pain,” the CPO said, adding that the orphan boy had been “subjected to barbarity”.

The CCTV footage of the incident shows a boy running on the road after spotting a car. The car is seen swerving and chasing the boy, eventually hitting him. The boy, who fell, then rams into the gate of a nearby house and dies on impact.

A case has been registered on the state’s behalf at Multan’s DHA police station.

The first information report (FIR) names two suspects and invokes Sections 302 (intentional murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

According to the FIR, the teenage boy had working for the suspects and was being trained as an electrician. His cousin told police that the boy had reportedly faced violence and threats by the suspects, the FIR said, adding that the 15-year-old was fleeing when the suspects pursued him in a car and hit him.

Police arrested one of the suspects while the other escaped, the FIR stated. It added that their vehicle had been taken into custody.

A road accident on Multan’s Bosan Road claimed the lives of five men in their 20s early on Monday after their speeding Toyota Corolla hit a road divider before crashing into the wall of a nearby plot and catching fire, Rescue 1122 said.

All five occupants, who were residents of Shujaabad, died at the scene.

“As a result of the accident, five individuals traveling in the car sustained severe injuries and died on the spot,” Rescue 1122 said.

According to the police report, the accident occurred at 4am, and a passerby informed the control room about it at 4:15am.

Rescue 1122 identified three of the five victims as men aged 22, 23 and 28. The ages of the two unidentified men were estimated to be around 24 or 25 years.

All five victims had sustained head injuries, Rescue 1122 said.

The spokesperson added that firefighters had brought the fire under control following the mishap. Rescue personnel shifted the bodies to Multan’s Nishtar Hospital.

Rescue 1122 reported 43,160 road traffic crashes, resulting in 23,013 serious injuries and 434 deaths during the month of May across Punjab. The department secretary had expressed concerns at the large number of road accidents.