Two killed in Haripur

Published June 21, 2005

HARIPUR, June 20: A boy and a man were killed and another person was injured in different incidents here on Monday. Police quoted Mohammad Bashir Khan of Brug Nara Amazai village as saying that his son Khanzada Khan, 18, left the house for taking bath in the Tarbela Lake but did not return.

The family later found his stripped body in a deserted place. The body was taken to the Ghazi tehsil headquarters hospital where doctors said the boy had died after being hit on the head with a stone.

A man was killed and his servant injured when the roof of their poultry farm caved in at Abdullah Pur village.

Family sources said Sher Bahadur Khan, son of Chanan Khan, and his servant Zareen were sleeping the farm when its clay roof fell on them.

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