21 February 2004	Saturday	29 Zilhaj 1424

RAWALPINDI, Feb 20: Five persons, including a girl and her grandmother, died in separate incidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Friday.

A 10-year-old girl, Lubna, and her grandmother, Khurshid Begum (62), were run over by a speeding car near Dhoke Kala Khan on Islamabad Highway on Friday.

Police said the woman along with her granddaughter was crossing the road when an unregistered car knocked them down and sped off towards Faizabad. A motorcyclist was killed after his vehicle veered off the road near Soan.

Mohammad Firdous was heading towards Rawalpindi on his bike (JMC-3141) to celebrate Basant with his friends, but while crossing the Soan bridge he started wheeling and lost control of the vehicle.

Saifuddin, 30, working as a servant at Rashid Hussain's house in I-8/4, was shot dead by an unidentified person. Mr Hussain lodged an FIR with the I-9 police, stating that a person rang the doorbell of his house on Friday. When Saifuddin went to see who was at the gate, the culprit opened fire on him. The injured was shifted to Pims where he died.

A 21-year-old person committed suicide by hanging himself to the ceiling of his house at Bani Gala in Bhara Kahu. Nasir Mehmood, whose father is a driver at the US embassy, was in distress after his father refused to buy him a new car. Habib Shah attempted suicide by setting himself on fire in Bhara Kahu. The victim, who suffered 40 per cent burns, was shifted to the CMH in Rawalpindi.