Girl killed on road

KARAK, Aug 28: A ten-year-old girl was killed after being struck by a speeding passenger coach on the Indus Highway. Her parents, however, pardoned the errant driver.

Police said a Lakki Marwat bound passenger coach coming from Peshawar ran over Nazish, daughter of Mohammad Khan of Mir Kalam Banda. The girl was coming from Kohat with her mother and grandfather in a pick-up and as soon as they got off the vehicle at Mir Kalam Banda bus stop and were crossing the highway a passenger coach hit her.

Meanwhile, the district advisory development committee chairman Mian Nisar Gul inaugurated work on reconstruction of a four-kilometer-long road from Indus Highway to Ghundi Mir Khankhel on Sunday, which will cost Rs20 million. —Correspondent

Child electrocuted

PESHAWAR, Aug 28: A child was killed and two women sustained injuries when they touched a snapped power supply wire in Khushal Town on the Kohat Road on Sunday.

The child, identified as Zeshan, 11, was playing while the two women were on their way to somewhere when they touched an 11,000KV transmission line. Zeshan was killed on the spot while two women were taken to Lady Reading Hospital in critical condition.

Later, the residents of Khushal Town staged protest demonstration and placed the body of the child on the Kohat Road, blocking it.

They chanted slogans against the Peshawar Electric Supply Company for not repairing the transmission line.—Bureau Report

Thieves arrested

NOWSHERA, Aug 28: Nowshera police on Sunday arrested members of a gang involved in stealing power transformers and recovered stolen feeders from them.

Police said the theft of transformers was on rise in the district. On a tip-off police arrested three persons Shaukat, Asif and Shehzad allegedly involved in transformers theft from Mirhati area.

Initially, the robbers introduced themselves as employees of Wapda, but later confessed to have been stealing the power transformers.

Three transformers and 200 litres of oil were recovered from a shop by the in-charge of the Akora Khattak police station Ajmir Shah.

Robbers told police that they were also involved in stealing transformers in Punjab province. Police registered case against them and started investigation.—Correspondent

Compensation payment

MANSEHRA, Aug 28: The provincial government would pay compensation to families of Kandia victims.

This was stated by Kohistan DCO Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah while speaking to media men here on Sunday. He said the Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti who remained in touch with him since the Kandia tragedy on Thursday night had asked him to finalise the lists of the victims.

Mr Shah said 39 bodies had been retrieved and 23 people were still missing.

“It is yet to be decided by the provincial government whether or not the families of the missing people would be paid compensation,” Mr Shah said.

He said the relief and rescue operation was still in progress in the affected valley.—Correspondent