Party meeting preps: Two ANP members die of electrocution
The driver managed to flee but an FIR was registered
PABBI:
Two members of Awami National Party were electrocuted to death in Spin Khak area of Pabbi early Friday morning. According to the police, Nemat Shireen and councillor Shakirul Haq were preparing for a party meeting where ANP Central General Secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain and provincial representative Iqbal Hussain were to appear, when they touched an 11kV electricity pole that killed both of them on the spot. The meeting was postponed as party members mourned the deceased. In a separate incident, a labourer was killed while another was wounded when a speeding truck hit them on Cherat Road in Pabbi. Ameer Hussain and Wahid Dilbar were going to work when a speeding truck hit them, killing Ameer on the spot while wounding Wahid who was rushed to Mian Rashid Hussain Shaheed Memorial Hospital. The driver managed to flee but an FIR was registered.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 27th, 2016.
Two members of Awami National Party were electrocuted to death in Spin Khak area of Pabbi early Friday morning. According to the police, Nemat Shireen and councillor Shakirul Haq were preparing for a party meeting where ANP Central General Secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain and provincial representative Iqbal Hussain were to appear, when they touched an 11kV electricity pole that killed both of them on the spot. The meeting was postponed as party members mourned the deceased. In a separate incident, a labourer was killed while another was wounded when a speeding truck hit them on Cherat Road in Pabbi. Ameer Hussain and Wahid Dilbar were going to work when a speeding truck hit them, killing Ameer on the spot while wounding Wahid who was rushed to Mian Rashid Hussain Shaheed Memorial Hospital. The driver managed to flee but an FIR was registered.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 27th, 2016.