HARIPUR: Boy killed in accident

Published August 12, 2004

HARIPUR, Aug 11: A boy was killed while 13 other passengers were injured when a van met with an accident on the G T Road on Wednesday. According to police, the Mardan-bound Toyota van collided head on with a truck near Panian village on the G T Road.

At least 13 persons, including four children and three women, sustained injuries. The injured were shifted to the DHQ Hospital in Haripur. Four persons, who had sustained serious injuries, were taken to the Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad where a boy, Mohsin, died, Kotnajibullah police said.

SHOT DEAD: Syed Hamid Shah of village Hattar was shot dead by his father on Tuesday evening. Nargis Bibi told police that her husband and her son were having a dispute over a wheat-grinding machine.

The dispute led to a sever altercation between the two which infuriated her husband, Shahnawaz, to the extent where he opened fire on his son, killing him on the spot. The accused later handed himself over to the police.

Meanwhile a student of Government Postgraduate College for Boys in Haripur, Gul Fiaz, drowned while bathing in the Siran river near village Beer, some 25km from here on Tuesday evening. Local divers fished out his body and handed it over to his relatives.

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