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PESHAWAR, April 22: The police have arrested four persons along with two kids and seized a big quantity of narcotics from their car with fake government number plate on Jamrood Road here on Saturday evening.
The police on suspicion stopped a Land Cruiser with a fake government coloured number plate Kohat-A 1015 near Jamrood police post.
During the search the police seized 540kg of hashish, 185kg of opium, a kalashnikov, six pistols, 510 cartridges and six fake number plates, hidden in a secret cavities of the vehicle.
The police arrested Rab Nawaz, son of Hakim Khan; his wife Noor Jehan alias Mumtaz Begum and their two daughters namely Manila (10) and Yaseen (8), residents of Batkhela (Malakand Agency).
Two other persons were also arrested from the same vehicle including Taj Mohammad, son of Amirzada, a resident of Wazir Bagh and Duran Shah, son of Noor Bacha, a resident of Khajoori (Bara).
Sources said that the smugglers were using three cars for the smuggling, in which two successfully crossed the police post, while the third one stopped. “The two were pilot cars and it crossed the police post unchecked as they also had the fake government number plates,” admitted by a cop in the Hayatabad police station.
ACCIDENTS: Two person were killed and another was injured in two separate road mishaps in the suburb areas of the provincial capital on Sunday.
In the first accident a car (Karachi-P 7795) collided head-on with a speeding truck (Peshawar-C 1878). As a result the car driver Asghar, son of Tajoon, a resident of Khan Mast colony, was killed on the spot and his friend of the same locality Amjad Ali, son of Noorzada sustained injuries, who rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where his condition stated to be out of danger.
The Chamkani police have arrested the Afghan truck driver Wazi, son of Karim, a resident of Nawan Kelly.
In the second road mishap, an elderly person, Fazle Ilahi, a resident of Mamoon Khatki, was hit by an over-speeding passenger van on Charsadda Road.
The son of the deceased, Hamidur Rehman, while lodging an FIR with the Daudzai police station, stated that he along with his father were on their way to home on foot, when the speeding van hit his father.
The driver escaped leaving the van there, which impounded by the police.
KILLED: One Ashraf Khan was killed by unknown persons when he was tilling the field at village Salman Khel in the jurisdiction of Badhber police station late on Saturday night.
Son of the deceased, Murad Khan, said that his father had no enmity with any person. Badhber police have registered a case and are investigating.
