TAXILA: Three persons were killed in separate incidents in Attock on Sunday, police and rescue sources said.

In the first incident, Mohammad Saqib, 38, an employee of the Punjab health department, posted at District Headquarters Hospital was stabbed to death in broad daylight in the busy main chowk in the limits of Attock city police station. The assailants managed to escape after firing in the air.

In the second incident, a 50-year-old Afghan national was axed to death in the Jallo area near Burhan motorway interchange in the limits of Hassanabdal police station.

The deceased identified as Haji Imrat Khan ran a small shop on G.T. Road. On Sunday, when he was going to open his shop, unknown masked men intercepted him and attacked him with axes as a result of which he died on the spot. Later the attackers threw his body on a vacant plot and fled away. Police attributed the murder to old enmity.

In another incident, a man, 55, was killed after being run over by a speeding car on Islamabad-Peshawar motorway near Burhan rest area.

Rescue and hospital sources said the man was crossing the motorway on foot when a car ran over them. Later his body was shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for autopsy. Respective police registered three separate cases and handed over the bodies after autopsy.

Moreover, a woman was abducted in the limits of Wah Saddar police station on Sunday. Mohammad Arshad reported to police that his daughter-in-law was going to meet her parents when Akram along with Mohammad Boota abducted her.

Police registered an abduction case against the nominated accused and launched further investigation.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2023