LAHORE: Four people were injured, one of them seriously, after a car fell down from a multi-storey parking plaza in Qilla Gujjar Singh area here on Monday.

The incident occurred when the driver tried to take a turn on reverse gear at a second floor of the building and it went out of control, a police official said.

He said the car was parked on a private building that was used for ‘car parking stand’ for the area people running business alongside a road.

The official said the driver and three other persons occupying the car got multiple injuries and were immediately shifted to a hospital.

They were identified as Arshad, Ali, Liaqat, and driver Rab Nawaz, he said adding that one of them was said to be serious because of some neck fractures.

Further investigation is under way.

MURDER: A woman and a man were allegedly murdered in separate incidents in the provincial capital here on Monday.

In Sabzazar area, the police recovered tortured body of an unidentified woman which was thrown alongside a road.

A police official said the police acted on the emergency call of a passerby who had spotted the body of the woman.

He said she was subjected to severe torture by the unidentified killer(s) as the police found several bruises on various parts of her body which was later shifted to a city morgue for postpartum after lodging a case.

About other incident, he said, a young man Umar Butt was allegedly shot dead by armed motorcyclists in Bhaati Gate area.

He said the man suffered multiple bullets which proved fatal. It seemed that he had an enmity with some people of his area, the police official said adding that the body has been shifted to a city morgue for autopsy.

Further investigations have been launched into the murder, he said.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2022

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