ISLAMABAD: Three persons, including a minor boy and a girl were murdered in Islamabad, police said on Monday.

In the first incident, a security guard and a minor boy were killed during an armed attack.

Police said two persons, including a teenager, came on a motorcycle to a housing society at Thanda Pani and sought entry, but the security guards refused.

The refusal annoyed the motorcyclists who threatened them with dire consequences and left the spot, the police said, adding after an hour they came again along with an armed person, who started indiscriminate firing at them, as a result a guard,Amir Abdullah, suffered bullet injury while his colleagues went into hiding, the police said. Bullets also hit a minor boy Sayam and his mother Samara Bibi, passing by the spot.

Later, the attackers escaped and the injured were shifted to hospital where the guard and the boy died, while the woman’s condition was critical, the police said. In another incident a teenage girl was shot dead near a nullah in I-14, the police said.

According to the police, two boys and the girl came to the area, adjacent to the nulllah and parked the vehicle along roadside and went towards the nullah.

Suddenly the people of nearby area heard a gunshot and spotted two persons escaping from there on the motorcycle.

Later they spotted the body of the girl in the nullah and informed the police who reached there and shifted the body to hospital for legal process and pending identification.

Meanwhile, a motorcyclist was killed and another injured in a road accident at Islamabad Chowk.

The accident occurred when an oil tanker hit the motorcycle and as a result they suffered injuries, the police said, adding that one of the riders, Ejaz Ahmed was killed on the spot.

Later, the other injured – Hasan Raza – and the body were shifted to hospital. The police arrested the driver of the tanker for further legal action.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2015

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