TAXILA: Police have arrested a man on charge of killing his friend in Attock.

According to a police spokesman, a furniture dealer identified as Amir Shahzad went missing on April 3 from his native village Haji Shah.

Police registered a missing case on the complaint of his father Umer Hayat. The spokesman said that a team of Attock Khurd police led by SI Khanzada Sheroze through human and digital intelligence picked his friend Shahfat Akhter, a resident of Attock city who during interrogation confessed to having killed Amir after exchange of heated arguments and dumped his body under cattle fodder in his cattle shed.

Later police recovered the body and shifted it to district headquarters hospital Attock.

Meanwhile two motorcyclists were killed while another injured in two different incidents in various parts of Attock on Thursday, police and Rescue 1122 sources said.

In the first incident, a man was killed while another sustained serious injuries when two motorcyclists collided with each other at Shamsabad Chowk in the limits of Hazro police station.

The injured and dead were taken to tehsil headquarters hospital Hazro.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2024