TAXILA: Three persons including a minor were killed in three incidents in Taxila and Attock on Wednesday.

A toddler drowned in an uncovered sewerage line in Kohsar Colony area in the limits of Taxila police station.

Police while quoting the family of the deceased said that three-year-old Abdullah Khan was playing near his house when he accidentally fell into the sewerage line and drowned.

Later, his body was recovered from Kalla nullah near New city area in the limits of Wah Saddar police station.

It was the second incident in the city in which a minor lost his life after falling in a manhole which had collapsed in the recent rain.

Separately, a man shot dead his wife over some domestic dispute in Murat village in the limits of Fatehjang police station and fled.

Moreover, a speeding dumper hit a motorcyclist on Fayehjang-Kohat road killing him on the spot.

Respective police have registered separate cases and launched investigation.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2022