TAXILA: Four persons were killed and three others injured in different incidents in Attock and Wah Saddar police stations limit on Monday.

In the first incident, an expatriate Pakistani and his driver were shot dead on Islamabad-Peshawar motorway (M-1) near Brhama Bhattar interchange in Wah Saddar police area.

Police sources said that Israr Khan after landing at the Islamabad airport was going home with his driver Gohar Khan.

When they reached near Brhama Bhattar interchange, four people opened fire on them resultantly both received multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot.

The assassins managed to escape from the scene successfully.

In a separate case, a man along with his son stabbed to death a rickshaw driver over some petty dispute in village Haji Shah in Attock Khurad police station.

Moreover, a man was killed and three others were injured in separate accidents on Hakla-D.I. Khan motorway in the limits of Pindigheb police station.

Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2022

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