RAWALPINDI, Nov 27: Armed men shot dead a retired police officer and a senior citizen in two separate incidents in the city on Sunday which also saw five other persons killed in accidents and robbers having a field day.

Retired SP Saeedul Hassan Pirzada was killed by robbers when he tried to rescue his son Amir Saeed Pirzada and his wife whom the robbers had taken at gunpoint in the porch of their house in Asghar Mall Scheme. Amir was injured in the shooting.

DIG Rawalpindi Syed Moravat Ali Shah suspended the Station House Officer of Banni police, Asghar Gorya, for failing to check crime in his area.

Amir said in a report lodged with the Banni police that the robbers were lying in wait when he with his family returned home from a wedding in the wee hours of Sunday.

His father also drove in a little later and finding his son and his family held at gunpoint grappled with the robbers and overpowered one of them. At this the robbers opened fire to free their accomplice and fled.

Both the man and his son were injured and taken to hospital where the former died. Amir was said to be in a stable condition.

The second incident of fatal shooting also involved a man and his son.

Sixty-year-old Manzoor Ahmed and his son Mohammad Fazal were returning home from a wedding past midnight when three armed men accosted them in Noorani Mohalla, Chaklala; shot dead the father and fled. Fazal told the police that his father had no enmity with anyone.

Meanwhile, a landslide buried two labourers alive while a third pulled out by rescuers was in a critical condition.

A 21-year-old truck conductor was run over by a train near Tarnol and a man and a woman were killed by recklessly driven cars in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Chaudhry Maqsood, a resident of Banni area, reported to the police that two robbers entered his house and took away Rs260,000 in cash, prize bonds valuing Rs80,000 and 20 tolas of gold ornaments.