ISLAMABAD, June 20: Five persons, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents in capital on Monday, police said.

In the first incident a cook, running prepared food business at Bari Imam, was stabbed to death by another cook over a petty issue.

Police said Jamal Karamat, 32, got engaged in a quarrel with neighboring cook over the selling of cooked food (Daigchi) to a devotee Bari Imam.

As a result scuffle broke out between them in which Karamat's rivals, equipped with knives, stabbed him. Due to multiple injuries he fell on the road and started bleeding profusely. The attacker managed to escape.

Later he was shifted to hospital where he was pronounced dead. In the second incident a man was found dead in the capital's rural area of Khana Dak.

The incident came to light when some passersby spotted the body lying in the bushes. The police shifted the body to hospital for pending identification and legal process. In the third incident, a pedestrian suffered multiple injuries when a car hit him while he was crossing Islamabad Highway. He was shifted to hospital where he died.

In the fourth incident a housewife electrocuted while washing cloth in a washing machine in her house at New Shakrial.

The police said, Sajida Bibi, suffered electric shock due to short circuit in the machine and fell on earth. Her in-laws spotted her and shifted to hospital where she pronounced dead.

Sajida Bibi married with Babar Ali two years back, and the couple was issueless.

In another incident a helper at tractor trolley was killed after being crushed under the vehicles wheel. The victim Mohammad Amir, 16, a resident of Tarnol all of sudden fell from the trolley due to a jerk and run over by the vehicle at Jhangi Syedan. He was taken to hospital where he died due to injuries. —Staff Reporter