RAWALPINDI: Two students died after drowning in a mini-dam while a labourer was killed in a road accident on Thursday, police said.

According to police and emergency services, four students of 8th class from Riasat Colony at Chakri Road went to the mini-dam in the area on a picnic.

As the four boys started swimming, two of them drowned.

The deceased were identified as Sartaj Malik, 13, and Ali Raza, 15. The bodies were recovered by divers and handed over to their families.

In another incident, Mohammad Aslam, 35, a labourer, was killed and four other people riding a tractor-trolley were injured when a car rammed into it on Airport Road.

Abdul Rasheed complained to the Airport police that he along with Mukhtiar Ahmed, 20, Mohammad Aslam, 21, Mohammad Jehangir, 20, and Mohammad Irfan were injured when the car hit them.

He said Aslam died of head injuries on the spot while the other injured were taken to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital where one of them was in a critical condition.

The police registered a case against the car driver, who escaped from the scene.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2016

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