HARIPUR: Chairman of Mohri No 2 village council Naveed Ilyas succumbed to a bullet wound at a hospital on Sunday morning, hospital and police sources confirmed.

Sera-i-Saleh SHO Siddiq Shah told Dawn that Mr Ilyas, 35, was sitting in his office near the GT Road on Saturday night when at around 9pm some area people spotted him critically injured.

He was taken to Haripur Trauma Centre where doctors referred him to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad, in critical condition.

He was admitted there, but he could not recover from the head injury and died on Sunday morning.

According to the SHO, it seems the chairman has committed suicide. He and the hospital sources said the circumstantial evidence and preliminary medical report suggested that he shot himself in his right temple with his pistol and the bullet exited from the other side which caused his death.

The police officer said they had taken the mobile phone and 9mm pistol into custody for investigation. Mr Ilyas was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Mohri No 2 village.

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2022