Man guns down wife over domestic dispute

Speeding train crushes teenager to death in Attock

ATTOCK:

Two persons, including a boy, were killed in two different incidents in various parts of Attock the other day.

In the first incident, a man shot dead his wife over a domestic dispute in Mohallah Gora in the limits of Jand police station. The accused, Muhammad Safeer had contracted a second marriage without the consent of his first wife and the victim of the case, Sobia Tabassum.

On the day of the incident, the husband and wife exchanged hot words over a domestic dispute and out of rage, Safeer took out his pistol and shot his wife dead. He later fled from the scene.

In the second incident, a 14-year-old boy was crushed to his death by a passenger train in the limits of Hassanabdal Police Station.

The son of an employee of the municipal committee, Fahad Butt was on his way to tuition class near his house when a Karachi-bound passenger train coming from Peshawar knocked into him, causing him to die on the spot.

The police have registered both cases and have launched investigations.

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Rescue services

Rescue 1122 provided services to a total of 30,923 emergencies in the Attock district with an average response time of 3.40 minutes during the year 2023.

As per a report on Rescue 1122’s annual performance, the emergency rescue service tackled different kinds of emergencies over the year as its control room received a total of 182,674 phone calls in 2023, of which 30,923 were emergency calls.

These included 3,028 road traffic accidents, 22,963 medical emergencies, 422 fire incidents, 431 crime cases, 11 drowning incidents and 3,095 miscellaneous emergencies.

Rescue 1122 rescued a total of 30,821 people, out of which 5,383 people were provided first aid on the spot, 25,199 people were shifted to the hospital while being given first aid and 239 people died on the spot.

In addition, 3,305 people were shifted to government hospitals in Rawalpindi so that they could be provided with better medical facilities to under the patient transfer service (PTS).

The report also stated that the Rescue 1122 Motorbike Service provided first aid to 3,421 patients in 3,102 separate emergencies.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2024.