MANSEHRA: Six people, two of them brothers, were killed and another 11 sustained critical injuries in separate incidents here on Monday.

A loaded truck on its way to Mansehra fruit market from Rawalpindi via Hazara motorway went out of the control after a break failure and crashed with two motorcars, a motorcycle and damaged a shop in Pano Dehri area leaving 13 people seriously injured.

The locals shifted the injured to King Abdullah teaching hospital where doctors pronounced Mohammad Bubashar and Zulfiqar Shah, both residents of Barkund area, dead.

Six of the injured were referred to the Ayub Medical Complex hospital Abbottabad while five were discharged from the hospital after emergency treatment. The police after lodging FIR started raids to arrest the truck driver, who according to eyewitnesses managed to flee following the accident.

Meanwhile, Mohammad Shafique, 18, and his younger brother Mohammad Waseem, 14, jumped into the river one by one to rescue their sheep in Jalgalli area but both were drowned.

According to the family the sheep had slipped into the water during grazing and both attempted to rescue her and jumped into water.

The locals later fished out their bodies and handed them over to their family. In another incident, Mohammad Nawaz and Taus Khan were killed in an exchange of fire between two groups in Suwai Shungli Bandi area of Oghi.

Tahir Qurashi, the deputy superintendent of police Oghi, told reporters that one of the groups started irrigating their agriculture fields, which led to the exchange of fire.

The police after lodging FIR started raids to arrest the accused from both sides who managed to flee after the incident.

Published in Dawn,May 3rd, 2022