LAKKI MARWAT, March 19: A college student lost his life when he accidentally pushed his pistol’s trigger here on Monday night.

The student, Mumtaz son of Gul Amin of the Government Degree College, had gone to attend a marriage ceremony at Ghazni Khel, a village 20 kilometres from here. When he reached back home and was putting his 30 bore pistol, commonly called TT, at its place he accidentally touched the trigger and a bullet pierced through his stomach.

He received severe injuries and was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. His parents did not report the matter to the police.

BODY FOUND: Serai Naurang police found a body of a young man who, most likely, came under the wheels of a vehicle on Bannu-Lakki Marwat Road on Monday night.

Some passengers, travelling on Bannu-Lakki highway noticed a human body wrapped in a chader (a sheet of clothe) on the main road.

They informed the Serai Naurang police, who took the body in their possession. The body was later identified as that of Sher Afzal Bhittani, son of Alam Din Bhittani, resident of the city. The police, after preliminary investigations, said the deceased was, perhaps, hit by a vehicle while standing on the roadside and the vehicle driver, wrapping the body in the chader left the injured behind in a critical condition.

The police have registered a case under sections 279/320 PPC and investigations are in progress.

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