Two women killed in Attock

Published November 19, 2008

ATTOCK, Nov18: Two women were killed and as many injured in separate incidents in the district on Tuesday.

According to an eye-witness, an Afghan woman was killed and two persons, including a rickshaw driver, were injured after being hit by the speeding motorcycle rickshaw when they were standing near the District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital on the Attock-Kamra Road. The injured were taken to the DHQ hospital.

In another incident, an unknown woman committed suicide by drowning herself in Ghazi Barotha Hydropower channel, passing near the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra on the Attock-Kamra Road.

The woman jumped from the bridge wall into the channel. A passerby tried to save the woman but remained unsuccessful.

No clue to kidnapped man: The local police have found no clue to the official of a tobacco factory kidnapped from Faqirabad area in the jurisdiction of the Saddar police on Sunday night.

Ms Aslam Baig, a resident of Akora Khattak, reported to the police that she along with her husband Aslam Baig, manager of a tobacco company, their son and a daughter were returning home from Wah.

When they reached near the Haro toll plaza at about 10pm, a car bearing revolving light and green number plate (No-1313) intercepted their vehicle. She said three persons wearing police uniform came out and dragged her husband into their car and sped away.

The police have registered a kidnapping case against the unidentified accused.

MAN COMMITS SUICDE: A 35-year-old man, Khizar Hayat, of Mangial in New Airport police area, Fatehjang, committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in a nearby agricultural field. The cause of the suicide was stated to be a family dispute.

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