SWABI: A teenage boy committed suicide while a body was recovered here on Monday, the police said.

Quoting family, they said an 18-year-old youngster ate insect-killing pills after arguing with his brother over some petty issue.

He was taken to the district headquarters hospital, where the doctors pronounced him dead.

Meanwhile, Zaida police recovered the body of a man from a field in Gajju Khan.

SHO Raz Mohammad said they shifted the body to Bacha Hospital Complex, Shahmmansoor, for autopsy.

He said the reason behind the killing was not known, but the police had registered an FIR against unknown persons.

Also in the day, the police arrested two persons for trying to defraud people in Takail village of Gadoon Amazai.

Utla police station officials said a laptop, a biometric machine and a car were seized from the fraudsters, namely Shoaib Khan of Islamabad and Safdar Nawaz of Batakara area of Swabi.

They said the men were trying to get data of people to be able to receive benefits under the government’s Ehsaas Rashan Card scheme.

The police have registered an FIR against them.

POLIO DRIVE: A four-day anti-polio campaign kicked off on Monday, targeting to vaccinate over 350,000 children, health officials said.

They said 1,090 teams, including 26 mobile, had been constituted for the campaign.

District police officer Mohammad Shoaib Khan told Dawn that 1,655 police personnel had been deployed for vaccinators’ security.

SCHOLARSHIPS: The district Zakat office will disburse Rs7.3 million scholarships to students of public sector educational institutions and seminaries during the current year, sources told Dawn on Monday.

They said only the poor students were eligible for the scholarship.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2022