HARIPUR, March 9: Two passengers were killed when a truck rammed into a rickshaw on the GT Road in the jurisdiction of the City police station here on Tuesday evening.

Those killed were identified as Akhlaque Ahmad, son of Mukhtiar Ahmad, and Mohammad Rashid, son of Mohammad Sadiq.

The police said that the speeding truck coming from Abbottabad collided head-on with the rickshaw near village Shah Mohammad. A passenger was killed on the spot. The rickshaw driver suffered multiple injuries. He died in the hospital.

INJURED MAN DIES: A man who had received burn injuries while working in a cement factory died at the hospital here on Wednesday. Hattar police said that two workers Mohammad Azam and Mohammad Javed were seriously injured when fire broke out in the coal plant of a cement factory last week.

They were admitted to the burn unit of the Wah Cantonment Hospital where Mohammad Javed died on Wednesday morning. In June last year, nine workers, including a production manager and two junior engineers, had died when the pre-heater section of the same cement plant had caught fire after an explosion.

LIQUOR SEIZED: Police claimed to have recovered 33 bottles of locally-made liquor from a car and arrested two persons here on Wednesday. The Khanpur police said that a car was stopped for checking near Jandial and 33 bottles of liquor were recovered from it. The police arrested Syed Ishtiaq Shah and Syed Tanveer Shah and also impounded the car.

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