A man and his daughter were run over by a speeding car while they were crossing the Bhagtanwala-Kot Momin Road. PHOTO: FILE
Four people were killed and three were injured on Sunday in road accidents in the district.
Rescue officials said that a motorcycle rammed into a donkey cart in Istaqlal Colony. Cart driver Asif was injured and died on the way while being taken to a hospital.
Elsewhere, a man and his daughter were run over by a speeding car while they were crossing the Bhagtanwala-Kot Momin Road.
A man, sitting on top of wooden logs being transported in a truck, was crushed when the vehicle over-turned on Mianwali Road when its driver tried to avoid a tractor-trolley from the opposite direction. The deceased was later indentified as Umar Ghani. Three people with him were injured and taken to tehsil headquarters hospital, where they were reported to be in critical condition. They were identified as Hayat Khan, Kameen Pehalwan and Wahid Gul.
Three beaten up
Three people were injured on Sunday when they were beaten up. Elsewhere, an electricity transformer exploded after it was hit by bullets during a shootout between two groups. Police said Arshad Baloch, 16, was beaten up by five boys after an argument over standing in front of the house of one of them. Police said Baloch was standing in front of Muhammad Ajmal’s house while he (Baloch) was waiting for his friend in the neighbourhood. They said Ajmal told Baloch to leave. When Baloch remained there, Ajmal and his four friends beat Baloch up. They fled when he fainted. Some passers-by took him to a hospital, where doctors said that he had internal wounds.
An attempt-to-murder case was registered against Ajmal, Javed, Abbas, Nadeem and Amir on the complaint of Baloch’s family.
In Shahpur City’s Tarjuman Colony, a woman and her son were beaten up by two men for ‘complaining against them’. Police have registered a case on the complaint of the woman’s husband.
Ulfat Shah, the woman’s husband, said that his wife and son had gone to Khadim Hussain and Abid Hussain’s house to complain that their cattle had damaged their crop.
In Satrah, police said an argument between Rustam Group and Iqbal Group led to a fight after which men from both sides started firing at each other. Some bullets hit the transformer. Power supply to the entire area remained disconnect for several hours before it was fixed.
Before police arrived, the men had fled the scene. Police registered cases against 16 men for damaging government property.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 11th, 2013.
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