CHAKWAL: Five people lost their lives in separate incidents in Chakwal district, police sources said on Monday.

In the first incident, Qalbe Abbas, 28, a resident of Murid village, was travelling on a motorbike on Talagang Road when a passenger van hit him, killing him on the spot. The van driver managed to flee from the scene.

The second incident occurred in Sadiyali village where a man gunned down his elder brother.

“There was a land issue between the brothers, and the matter was in court,” a police official said. The accused is still at large.

In another incident, a labourer died after a mixture machine ran over him on Islamabad-Lahore Motorway.

The machine went out of the driver’s control and hit the labourer identified as Mohammad Mustaqim.

Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy drowned in a well in Karkwali village in Talagang tehsil.

Mohammad Shoaib was bathing in the well. Similarly, Mohammad Sarfaraz, 22, drowned while swimming in Thoa Mehram Dam.

Published in Dawn, June 21st, 2016