Three killed, 10 injured in Hazara
Three people were killed and 10 injured in separate incidents in Hazara region between Tuesday night and Wednesday.
In the first incident, two passengers were killed while nine others were wounded when a jeep plunged into a roadside gorge near Bogran, around 34 km from Abbottabad, late on Tuesday night. The injured, which include five women, were shifted to Ayub Medical Complex, where three of them are reported to be in critical condition according to doctors. The deceased were identified as Ehtezaz and Akhtar Bibi.
Police said the passengers were headed towards Boe village from Abbottabad, adding that the jeep developed some mechanical fault while negotiating a sharp turn near Bogran village and fell into the gorge.
In the second incident, a factory worker died after being run over by a speeding passenger van near Kangra area of Haripur on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses and police said that Ghulam Murtaza, 41, was crossing the Hattar Taxila Road when he was hit. He was shifted to Women and Children Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
In the third incident, a minor child was critically injured after being hit by a train in Sera-e-Saleh village of Haripur on Wednesday. Police said that four-year-old Abdul Rafeh was playing near the railway tracks in Mohra Ali Khan area when he was hit by an oncoming train. He was admitted to Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad in critical condition.
Missing girl recovered
Meanwhile, a teenage girl who was abducted from Islamabad five months back was found tied outside a mosque in Mansehra on Wednesday.
According to the police, the girl was blindfolded, her hands and feet tied and left outside the mosque in Ghazikot by her abductors. The police quoted the girl as saying that she was abducted from Darra Islamabad by a man from her neighbourhood.
She said the man and her accomplices sexually assaulted her and kept moving her from place to place.
The girl was taken to the court of a judicial magistrate, who sent her to Darul Aman Abbottabad. The police registered a case and started investigation.
Man issued death penalty
Moreover, a man accused of murdering his former brother-in-law and father-in-law was awarded the death penalty by a court in Haripur on Wednesday. The court also fined him Rs200,000 for his crime.
The convict, Imran Mehmood of Sera-e-Saleh village, had divorced his wife, Umaira Bibi, last year but when her father Ghulam Murtaza and brother Ghulam Kibriya went to collect her dowry items from Mehmood’s place, he got infuriated and shot both of them dead.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 25th, 2012.
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