HARIPUR: A woman was killed, while her husband and minor daughter were injured critically when a passenger bus hit their motorbike near Darwesh area on the GT road here on Saturday.

Police quoted witnesses as saying that Said Raza of Bandi Muneem village was on way to Haripur city on his motorcycle along with his wife and daughter. When they reached near Faisal Mall on GT Road, a bus hit their bike, injuring the family.

The injured were shifted to the district headquarters hospital, where doctors pronounced Shazia, wife of Raza, dead, while Raza and his daughter, Shumaila Bibi, 6, were referred to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, in critical condition. The bus driver fled the scene.

Meanwhile, in another road accident four persons were injured, one of them critically, when two trailers collided head-on near Khanpur interchange.

Police said one of the trailers was going to Rawalpindi and the other to Taxila.

A seriously injured man identified as Ghulam Abbas, said to be the driver of one of the trailers, was recovered from the wreckage of his vehicle after cutting the mangled mettle. He was shifted to the district headquarters hospital, from where the doctors referred him to Ayub Medical Complex.

Also, police claimed to have recovered unlicensed weapons from a local dealer who was keeping the stock beyond the permissible limit.

The city police said during checking of arms dealers in the city a police party recovered 50 pistols of 30-bore, 14 shotguns of 12-bore and 5,500 cartridges of different bores from an arms dealer’s shop.

The police said the recovered weapons were illegal as these were beyond the permissible limit. The shop owner, Tayab Ali, was arrested.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2018