HARIPUR: Two picnickers drowned when a car fell into the Khanpur Dam here on Sunday.

The police said the car carrying five picnickers skidded off the road and fell into the reservoir near the old Khanpur village.

The rescue workers and local divers fished out three tourists alive. Bodies of the remaining two were retrieved about an hour later.

The victims were identified as Mohammad Abdullah and Mohammad Waseem.

Separately, two women allegedly committed suicide, while body of a man was recovered from a water tank in separate incidents, police said on Sunday.

Officials quoted Sardar Khan of Hattar village as saying that a woman, 25, wife of Taj Mohammad of Buner, had come to his home to attend a marriage ceremony where she allegedly shot herself dead over unknown reasons.

However, the officials said the body was two days old and the family kept the death of the woman secret.

The Hattar police collected the body and shifted it to the trauma centre. They were investigating whether it was a suicide or murder.

Also, a woman was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her room in Ain Pur village of Sera-i-Nehmat Khan union council.

The police said the family claimed she committed suicide as she was not having children despite her marriage a few years ago.

The police registered a case and started investigation.

Body of a man was found floating in an underground water tank in Shah Mohammad village. The police said the victim, Niaz Mohammad of Alai village, was a watchman at a private farm in the village.

His colleagues said he left his room on Saturday night for the washroom, but did not return.

They said they started a search and found his body floating in underground water tank. Police and his colleagues believed he fell into the tank and drowned.

In another development, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shah Farman has appointed Dr Ayub Khan as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Universityof Haripur for two years and Dr Ammara Gul as dean of the faculty of administration and social sciences for three years.

Dr Ayub was serving as chairman agronomy department and Dr Gul as chairperson of the psychology department.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2021