MANSEHRA: Four people, including a woman and her son, were killed and seven others sustained injuries when a passenger jeep plunged into a deep ravine near Garhi Habibullah here on Thursday.

The jeep was on its way to Garhi Habibullah from a mountainous Sarmai area when the driver lost its control after failure of break and it fell into a ravine.

The police identified those killed in the accident as Mohammad Farooq, Sherzaman and the wife and son of one Mohammad Bashir.

The bodies and injured were taken to a nearby hospital where doctors referred the injured to Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad. According to doctors, condition of two of the injured was critical. Garhi Habibullah police have lodged FIR of the incident.

In another incident, a woman suffocated to death and her husband fell unconscious due to gas leak in Darra area on the outskirts of Mansehra city. Mohammad Baidar and his wife were taken to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital in early hours on Thursday where doctors pronounced the latter dead.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2016