CHITRAL/KOHAT: Six persons, including three personnel of Chitral Scouts, were killed in separate road accidents in Chitral and Kohat districts, police said on Friday.

Police said a Chitral Scouts vehicle plunged into a ravine near Mastuj town in Upper Chitral on Friday evening, killing three personnel on the spot, who were identified as Naik Rasheed Hassan and sepoys Hafizullah and Samiullah.

The injured, education officer Ibrahim and principal of scouts public school, Saeed Khan, were shifted to scouts hospital.

Meanwhile, three former students of the Kohat University of Science and Technology were killed and two others injured in a road accident on Thursday night when they were returning to their native Lakki Marwat district after attending a musical night here.

The deceased were identified as Haroon ur Rasheed, Shahid Khan and Qudratullah.

The Rescue 1122 personnel pulled out the bodies from the badly-damaged car which had hit a truck parked along the Indus Highway near Tappi.

The two injured were referred to a major hospital in Peshawar after getting first aid in KDA Teaching Hospital.

The bodies were moved to Lakki Marwat where they were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard.

Published in Dawn, December 21st, 2019