TAXILA: Two people died while four others were injured in various parts of Attock on Sunday.

In the first incident, Mohammad Saeed, resident of Mohallah Shahbazgarh committed suicide by shooting himself. Police, while quoting his family members, said the man was a father of six and had been in distress due to financial problems. She shut himself in a room and shot himself, they said.

Meanwhile, the body of a teenage boy was recovered from Haro river near Garyalla.

Police said a passerby spotted the body floating in the river and informed police who reached the spot and shifted it to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, Attock. The body was not identified till the filing of this news report.

Separately, a couple was injured after their vehicle was hit by a car on Kamra Road. Police said the injured were shifted to DHQ hospital.

Two persons identified as 40-year-old Yaseen and 33-year-old Sohail received burn injuries when a sewerage line burst due to gas accumulation at Basal Chowk.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2022