RAWALPINDI, July 30: A 22-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself in his house in Saddar Bairuni police area on Tuesday, police said.

Zainul Abideen had been suffering from hepatitis since long that drove him into distress, police said. He was found hanging by a rope tied to the ceiling of his room on Tuesday morning.

A REPORTER ADDS: Mohammad Jamal, 25, drowned in Rawal Lake while he was netting fish, police said.

The body was fished out by rescue workers and handed over to his family.

17 INJURED: As many as 17 people were injured when a bus hit a truck on motorway near Chakri village, a spokesman for the police said.

A Peshawar-bound passenger bus (LXK-2899) coming from Multan hit a truck (GLT-6200) when the bus driver, Shahnaz Gul, fell asleep. The injured were shifted to the hospital by Motorway police. The bus driver managed to escape from the scene, the police said.

In another incident, a police constable on VVIP duty on Islamabad Highway near Faizabad bridge was injured when an overloaded passenger van hit him.

Mohammad Jamil, a traffic police constable, was injured when he signalled a passenger van to stop but, instead of stopping the van, the driver hit the police constable.

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