ISLAMABAD: A senior union office-bearer of the Printing Corporation of Pakistan (PCP) was killed in the city on Tuesday.

Police identified the victim as Rana Shafique, 50, the general secretary of the PCP union.

Shafique lived at the Press Colony located in the G-7 sector near the PCP building. On Tuesday, he was supervising some digging work at a nearby greenbelt when another employee of the PCP, who is also the office-bearer of the union, came there and raised an objection to the digging. As a result, the two men ran into arguments but the matter was resolved by other people on the spot.

After a while, however, the son of the office-bearer carrying a knife reached the spot and challenged Mr Shafique.

The police quoted the onlookers as saying that though he threatened the victim, he had no intention to attack him. Unfortunately, however, during the argument the knife hit the main artery of Mr Shafique’s hand.

The people on the occasion tried to stop the bleeding instead of taking him to hospital. Later, when the injured was taken to hospital, he had already lost plenty of blood and died.

Meanwhile, two people were killed and two others injured in separate accidents in the city on Tuesday.

In the first incident, a car overturned at Sangjani, killing the driver. Ghufran Ali, had picked a student from Quaid-i-Azam University to drop her at her house. When the car reached Sangjani, he fell asleep and the vehicle overturned.

In another incident, a motorcyclist was killed and his pillion rider injured when a truck hit them at Islamabad toll plaza.

Published in Dawn, July 1st, 2015

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