12 July 2004	Monday	23 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425

PESHAWAR, July 11: Three persons were killed in different incidents, while a group of armed men hurled a hand-grenade and opened fire on a house in Mathra after a minor dispute, police officials said here on Sunday.

A brick-kiln worker, Zar Hameed, a resident of Gharibabad, told Badhaber police that on Sunday morning he came to his house and asked his wife Zari Mohtaj to make a cup of tea.

But she started quarrelling with him and after some time shot herself with a pistol, Zar Hameed claimed, and added that he brought his injured wife to the Lady Reading Hospital where she expired.

A minor girl Aasia, daughter of Iftikhar, was run over by a car on the Kohat Road in Badhaber police jurisdiction on Sunday morning when she was crossing the road. The vehicle speed away after killing the minor girl.

An 8-year-old boy Attaullah, son of Durran, who was injured during a cross-fire between two rival parties in his village Shereena, in Dera Ismail Khan district, on Saturday, succumbed to injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital here on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Imdad Khan, son of Bahadur Khan, a resident of Shahi Bala village, told Mathra police that his son on Saturday morning exchanged hot words with mechanics at a nearby bicycle workshop.

Later in the night, a group of people hurled a hand-grenade on his house and also opened fire. Nobody was hurt in the attack. Police have registered a case and are investigating.

ARRESTED: The city police arrested 18 proclaimed offenders and 17 other outlaws during an operation against anti-social element in Badhber and Matani areas on Sunday.

The police also recovered, 15 Kalashnikovs assault rifles, 10 Kalakovs rifles, 8 .12-bore shotguns, 18 .30-bore pistols, 6 hand-grenades and 1000 cartridges of various bores.

The police in separate raids in the same localities arrested 17 outlaws and recovered 35kgs of hashish, foreign-made cloth, smuggled automobile engines and spare parts, and 12 buffaloes which were being smuggled to Afghanistan.