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| February 4, 2003 | Tuesday | Zul Hijjah 2,1423 |
Six die in separate incidents
RAWALPINDI, Feb 3: Six persons, including two women, died in separate incidents in the Rawalpindi District and federal capital on Monday, police said.
In the first incident, a taxi driver was shot dead during a robbery at Tarnol.
According to the police, some persons booked a cab (RIG- 5306) from Chur and, while passing through a deserted place, shot the driver, Shemraiz Khan, when he refused to give up car keys and cash.
The robbers dragged the body of the driver out of the vehicle and escaped in it, the police said.
Some passers-by spotted the body and informed the police, who shifted it to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) for postmortem. The victim was a resident of Chur, the police said.
In the second incident, Maj Syed Serfraz Hussain, serving with 956 Janbaz training team, shot himself to death at his residence, 5-A Qasim Lane, Peshawar Road, on Monday night, the police said.
While giving the cause of the suicide, Mohammad Anwar, the police investigating officer, told Dawn that the victim had been in distress over his ailment for the last few days. The victim was a father of four.
Soon after the incident came to light, army and police officials arrived at the scene, and took the body into custody. A police team, headed by the RA Bazaar Police Station SHO, took the finger prints and also recorded the statements of the family members.
In the third incident, an 18-year-old girl died after falling in a water well in Ganjmandi on Monday, hospital authorities said.
The body of the victim, identified as Tahira Bibi, was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital for autopsy.
In another incident, Salahuddin Ghazi, who had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in G-9/1, Islamabad, last Saturday, died at Pims on Monday, the police and family said.
The victim was in distress over the death of his father last Saturday. He had been in coma since he shot himself, the police said.
Our Correspondents Add: A mother of six children was burnt to death in Dhoke Dhamial Rajput village some 15kms from Gujar Khan on Monday morning, the police said.
According to the report lodged by Mohammad Safdar, his wife, Shakran Bibi, who had been suffering from epilepsy for the last few years, caught fire while preparing breakfast in the kitchen at about 6:30am.
He said his children were away at the time of the incident and he was asleep in another room. On seeing smoke coming out of the kitchen, he rushed there and found his wife engulfed with flames. However, the woman died before being taken to the hospital.
Meanwhile, a man shot himself to death in Taxila on Monday. Police said Niaz Ahmed, 20, shot himself with his father’s 30- bore pistol in Tarbela Colony in the jurisdiction of Taxila police station. Niaz was jobless for quite sometime and had been in distress.
The police have handed over the body to the relatives after autopsy.
TWO BURNT: A man and his teenage son were burnt critically in a gas-leak explosion at Dhoke Ali Akbar, Sadiqabad, Rawalpindi, on Monday, police and hospital authorities said.
The incident happened when Mohammad Shabir, aged 40, and his son, Mohammad Junaid, returned home from their native village and showed a match stick to light a gas heater. As a result, an explosion occurred, and both father and son were trapped in the fire which destroyed furniture and households.
The neighbours rescued the two persons and shifted them to the Rawalpindi General Hospital, where, according to doctors, they received more than 50 per cent burns.
PETROL PUMP LOOTED: Robbers looted Rs207,000 in cash from a a PSO filling station at The Mall, Rawalpindi, the police said.
Malik Amir Abbas, in a complaint lodged with the Cantonment police, said four persons came to the filling station in a car, and held him and other employees at gunpoint. They overpowered the security guard, Anwar Baig, and took his gun.
The robbers, then, snatched the money from the cashier and locked all the employees in a room before escaping, the police said.
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