PESHAWAR/KOHAT: Four children and two women were among nine people killed and as many injured in road accidents in Peshawar and Kohat districts on Monday.

In Peshawar, a recklessly driven passenger coach rammed into a shop on Charsadda Road, killing five persons and injuring two others.

According to an official of Daudzai police station, the van coming from Shabqadar area of Charsadda to Peshawar went out of the driver’s control near Mamon Khatko checkpost and rammed into a grocery shop.

The official said the vehicle hit the cemented structure of the shop so hard that the bodies were retrieved after a three-hour long effort.

The cause of the accident, he said was rash driving.

The dead were identified as Zareef Khan, Zahirullah, Haji Noor Sher, Ms Aisha, daughter of Zahirullah and Akhtar Bibi, daughter of Kachkol of Peshawar.

A spokesman of Rescue 1122 said two people died on the spot, who three others succumbed in hospital. All the injured people were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.

In Kohat, three minors were among four persons killed and seven injured in two road accidents.

Police said a passenger van (BA-2464) coming from Orakzai Agency to Hangu knocked waiting passengers in Marai area, after driver lost control over it. As a result eight-year-old Sabah Ishtiaq, nine-year-old Bismillah Jan, hailing from Tora Warai area of Hangu, and Behram Khan, a resident of Khyber Agency, died on the spot. The bodies were brought to Kohat hospital.

The injured who were brought to the Women and Children Hospital, Kohat, included Alia Bano, her sister Salma Bano and Ain Ullah Jan from Kachai, and Sorat Shah, Hassan Gul, Haneef Gul and Imran, residents of Orakzai Agency.

In the second incident, a minor boy, Yasir, was hit by a car while crossing road in Muhammadzai village. The cantonment police arrested the driver and impounded the car on the report of deceased’s grandfather, Amanullah Khan.

Meanwhile, a 20-year-old man identified as Sohaib shot himself dead in his house in Kachai area over unknown reasons, an official of Ustarzai police said, adding a case had been registered into the incident.

Published in Dawn, May 5th, 2015

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