TAXILA: Two persons were killed and 12 others injured in three incidents in Attock on Monday, police and hospital sources said.

In the first incident, a man was killed and eight others were injured, four of them critically, when the pickup they were travelling in hit a tree on Tarbela Road in the limits of Hazro police.

Police sources said Imran Nawaz along with his friends was coming back to the town on his double-cabin pickup when the accident occurred near a toll plaza due to over speeding. As a result, Imran died on the spot while his eight friends were injured.

The critically injured Umer Farooq, Zeeshan Ibrahim, Muneeb Khan and Mazhar Imran were shifted to Rawalpindi.

Separately, a woman died while her three family members were injured when the car they were travelling in fell into a roadside ditch on Rawalpindi-Kohat Road in Fatehjang.

Police said Danial Mukhtar was coming back to his village after receiving his father, mother and sister at the airport when the family met with the accident.

Moreover, three people shot and injured Sadaqat Ali in Sepal village over an old enmity.

Three filling stations sealed

Weights and measures wing of the Punjab Industries, Prices, Weights and Measures (IPWM) sealed three filling stations for employing tampered nozzles and selling fuel with inaccurate measures in Attock on Monday.

A team led by district officer Rabiya Naseem checked as many as 23 filling stations in various parts of the district and found three of them using tempered nozzle and selling fuel with inaccurate measures.

The district officer told newsmen that the purpose of the campaign was to ensure that petrol pumps were abiding by the weight and measures rules set by the government.

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2022