NOWSHERA: A motorcyclist died after his throat was slit by a glass-coated kite string here on Monday.

The pillion rider suffered serious injuries as the motorcycle later hit a roadside wall. The police said Salam, the 28-year-old government employee from Khathu Khelo area, died instantly after the string slit his throat as he was on the way from Rislapur to Nowshera Kalan.

They said as Salam lost the motorcycle’s control, it rammed into a roadside wall seriously injuring his father, Gul Zaman, who rode pillion. The police said the two were shifted to the Qazi Medical Complex, Nowshera.

They said they had registered a case against unidentified people over the incident and started investigation.

BODY FOUND: The body of a boy was found by the rescuers in Nowshera during a routine exercise near the Kabul River here.

The boy seemed to have died two days ago. The rescuers shifted the body to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2018

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