HARIPUR: Unknown assailants murdered a teenager by slitting his throat and dumped his body in the limits of Khalabat Township police station, officials said on Friday.

Identity of the deceased boy remained to be established, the police said while sharing the details on social media forums.

Khalabat Township SHO Siddiq Shah, on whose complaint the FIR was registered against unknown assailants, said residents informed him that the body of a boy was lying in the agriculture fields near the graveyard of Chohar village. He said the police shifted the body to the trauma centre.

He said circumstantial evidence showed the boy was about 13/14 years of age, and his throat was slit with a sharp-edged weapon.

Meanwhile, a van driver was killed and six university students were injured when a car collided with a van on Khanpur Road, police said on Friday.

They said a recklessly-driven car coming from Taxila collided head-on with a van loaded with stones in Pind Muneem village.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2024