Body of ‘outlaw’ recovered

Published July 4, 2003

HANGU, July 3: Police found the body of an outlaw allegedly involved in the murder of three policemen in Quetta here on Wednesday.

The body was recovered from the foothills near Shahookhel.

Initially the body remained unidentified, but later the police claimed that it was the body of a criminal who was wanted by the Quetta police in the murder case of three policemen.

However, later the body was identified as that of Saeed Ahmad, son of Bashir Ahmad. The police believed that he had jumped off the hill to kill himself.

A police source said that the victim was mentally deranged and had jumped off the hill in a frenzy.

SIX INJURED: Six people were injured when a Suzuki pick-up collided head-on with a flying coach near Raisan on Wednesday. The pick-up was going from Kohat to Hangu, while the coach was going from Hangu to Kohat.—Correspondent

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