January 24, 2003	Friday	Ziqa’ad 20, 1423

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RAWALPINDI, Jan 23: Two persons, including a woman, were killed and several people injured in separate incidents in Islamabad on Thursday.

In the first incident, a man was killed after a gas cylinder exploded in a wood workshop in I-9/2 on Thursday.

Police said Atif Mehmood, 24, was working on a spray-paint machine when a gas cylinder, containing 500 pound gas, exploded, injuring him critically. He was shifted to Pims where he died.

In the second incident, a woman was killed after being run over by a passenger wagon while four persons, travelling in the wagon, were injured when it crashed into an electric pole in G- 11/3 in the jurisdiction of Golra police station on Thursday.

Police said Asia Bibi was walking along the road when a wagon (PRH-7613), while trying to avoid the woman, hit her and then crashed into a roadside pole.

Asia Bibi and four other persons, travelling in the wagon, were injured in the accident. They were shifted to Pims where the woman died.

In another incident, three pedestrians were injured after being hit by a speeding car driven by the son of a senior official of the Foreign Office on Islamabad Highway on Thursday.

Similarly, two persons, Mohammad Irfan and Atif Abbas, were injured when the wagon (DGE-9383) they were travelling in, was hit by a pick-up van (RIN-2961) in Bhara Kahu, police said.

Meanwhile, three policeman including, the SHO of I-9 police station, were critically injured when their jeep crashed into a toll plaza on the motorway due to fog early Thursday morning, police sources said.

The police personnel were going to Lahore to attend the hearing of a case at the high court.

Inspector Jamil Hashmi, Mazhar and Sohail were shifted to a nearby hospital in Shekhupura. The injured are likely to be shifted back to Islamabad.

BODY FOUND: Islamabad police found a body of an unidentified man lying near Haj Complex near Tarnol on Thursday.

A passer-by, Riaz Ahmed, spotted a body mauled by dogs, with a knife lying besides him and informed the police.

The hands of the man, who seemed to be in his 20s, had been tied with a rope with his throat slit.

The police have shifted the body to the hospital for autopsy. The body seems to be two-day-old.