HARIPUR: Two women killed

Published December 23, 2002

HARIPUR, Dec 22: Two women were killed when a wall of an under-construction shop fell on them at Darband on Sunday.

Witnesses said that the victims, Khatum-un-Nisa, wife of Ali Mohammad, and Dil Jan Bibi, both residents of Kalinjer village, were waiting for a bus near an under-construction plaza, when a wall fell on them.

The women were taken to the DHQ hospital, where one of them was pronounced dead. The other was referred to the Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, where she died.—Correspondet

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