TAXILA: Four people were killed and five others injured in separate incidents in Attock on Sunday.

A Kohat-bound passenger van collided head-on with an oil tanker on Kohat-Rawalpindi Road near Qutbal. As a result, two passengers died on the spot while five others were injured.

The dead were identified as Farhan Iqbal and Shah Gul. The injured - Mohammad Basheer, Mubashir Hussan, Tanveer Hussain, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Najeeb - were shifted to Rawalpindi.

A 15-year-old boy drowned in a rainy pond near Kharrapa Interchange in Pindigheab.

Mohammad Subhan had gone to the pond with his friends for swimming.A 22-year-old man committed suicide by shooting himself.

Police said Khurrum Shahzad, a tailor by profession and resident of Mirza village, exchanged harsh words with his family over a some domestic dispute and then shot himself. He was being shifted to the DHQ hospital when he died.

Published in Dawn, May 20th, 2019