HARIPUR, Feb 5: Two persons, including a young boy, were killed in separate incidents here on Saturday, police said.

He was taken to a private hospital in Islamabad, but could not survive. In the second incident, an employee of an eatery was killed when a speedy truck hit him.

Police said that Abid Ali, an employee of a roadside eatery, was crossing a road at Hattar Industrial Estate when overrun by the truck. The deceased was a resident of Chapra Noor village. The driver management to escape and left behind his truck, eyewitnesses said.

Meanwhile, the ulema belonging to Sunni Ulema Council (SUC) and seminary students here on Saturday took out a procession to express solidarity with Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the alleged assassin of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer.

The procession started from Miladnagar and ended at GT road near Khanpur bus stop. Traffic on Taxila-Haripur road remained suspended for about half an hour. The participants also chanted slogans against the government.

Speaking on the occasion, Khanpur chapter SUC president Allama Faisal Raza Qadri and Faizullah Qadri criticised the government for its pro-US policies.

They said that the situation would have been different had the government stopped Mr Taseer from his negative remarks against the blasphemy law.

They said that the SUC would resist every move for change in the blasphemy law. “Death is the only sentence for a blasphemer under Islamic law,” they said.

They expressed solidarity with Mumtaz Qadri and his family and said that the capital punishment could not scare the true lovers of Islam. They alleged that the government wanted to deny the right of self-defence to Mr Qadri.