TAXILA: Two persons were killed in separate incidents in Attock and Wah Saddar on Saturday.

In the first incident, a man was killed in Marri village in the limits of Attock police. Police sources said that Azeem Khan, a former official of the revenue department, was returning home when two masked men hiding behind a wall and shot him dead.

In the second incident, the body of a man missing from Taxila was found in Wah Saddar police area. Shahbaz Ali went out of his house to purchase milk but went missing. On Saturday his body was found in a water tank of an under-construction house in a mutilated condition.

Published in Dawn, March 12th, 2023

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