May 19, 2007	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 02, 1428

MURREE, May 18: Four persons, including three women, were killed and four others injured in two separate incidents here on Friday, police sources said. In the first incident, a man and woman were killed when a wall of Murree Millennium Mall collapsed.

Zulfikar Abbasi, a resident of Chitta Mor Murree, and a woman, whose name could not be identified, were killed, while four persons, including a seven-year-old boy, injured.

According to the people of the area, substandard material is commonly used in the construction of buildings in Murree. They said the land in Murree was not suitable for multi-storey buildings, but still such constructions had been carried out during the last couple of years with the connivance of the authorities concerned.

The Supreme Court had taken suo motu action against the construction of illegal buildings in Murree and ordered the town nazim and Rawalpindi district administration to take action in this regard but to no avail.

In another incident, two women were killed when a loaded truck of the highway department fell on them.

The driver had parked the truck along the roadside. After some time the truck started moving backwards and fell on two women who were sitting along the roadside while waiting for a bus.

The women were identified as Nasreen Bibi and Zakia Bibi, residents of Ghambhir, Lora. Two shops on which the truck fell were totally destroyed. The locals of the area pulled out the dead women from under the truck after hectic efforts.