RAWALPINDI: Five people were killed in separate incidents in the city, police said on Tuesday.

Sehr Asif, daughter of Asif Masih, 9, resident of Dhoke Ratta left for her grandmother’s house on Christmas day but did not reach there.

In the FIR, Asif Masih said he turned to the police after his efforts to trace his daughter failed. He said his daughter’s body was found lying abandoned at the bank of Leh Nullah.

A police official, who was leading the investigation, said the real cause of her death would be known after the chemical examiner’s report.

In another incident, a man was gunned down in his house on Monday.

Wasim Rasool Khawaja, resident of Khayaban-i-Sarfraz, lodged an FIR with Airport Police, saying that he was at home when he heard a gunshot from his sister’s house who lived in the neighbourhood. When he and his son reached there, they saw two motorcyclists leaving his sister’s house.

He said when he went to his sister’s house, he found his brother-in-law Khawaja Kashif Iqbal lying injured on the porch of his house. They shifted him to the hospital but died on the way.

The victim’s wife revealed to her brother that an unknown person rang the doorbell of her house and called her husband out. Later, her husband was shot and injured, she said.

In the third incident, a man named Ansar Mehmood was killed over a land dispute in Kolian in the limits of Dhamial police. Police said three persons were accused of killing Ansar in the FIR which was registered on the complaint of Mohammad Saleem.

Meanwhile, a woman and her son were killed while her husband and two daughters were injured when a passenger bus crashed into their van near Chakri .

According to the police spokesman, the bus was travelling from Rawalpindi to Lahore while the van was carrying a family from Attock to Thallian.

Shahida, 45, and her son Mubeen, 21, died on the spot while her husband Muneer and two daughters Hadia, 17, and Aeza, 9, were injured critically.

Shortly after the accident, DIG Motorway north zone reached the scene with police personnel and shifted the injured and the deceased to the hospital.

According to the district police, the gas cylinder affixed to the van exploded after the collision between both vehicles.

Published in Dawn, December 28th, 2022