RAWALPINDI: Three people were killed while a man drowned in a nullah on Sunday, police and emergency services said.

The emergency service said a group of friends had gone to a nullah near Judicial Town Baroha for bathing where one of them drowned. The emergency services said the body was fished out and shifted to the THQ hospital Murree.

The victim was yet to be identified. Tariq Mehmood told Waris Khan police that his brother, Dildar, left his house but did not return. Later, his motorcycle was found parked outside a hotel.

He said they were informed that a body had been shifted to hospital by Waris Khan police. The relatives contacted the police which led to identification of Dildar. He said there were knife and dagger wounds on his body.

Najam Saqib lodged an FIR with Sadiqabad police saying that his brother Muhibullah ran a barber shop. He said he received a call that his brother had been taken by one Abdullah and an unidentified person to their room in the area and strangled.

He said later he found his brother’s body lying in the mortuary of the District Headquarters Hospital. The motive behind the murder was old enmity.

Another murder case was reported to Naseerabad police by Amir Masih. He said his two brothers and his father were standing in the street. He said his father exchanged hot words with Samson Masih alias Chooma following which Samson went inside his house and came out with a pistol and shot his father.

The complainant said he shifted his father to the DHQ hospital where he died.

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2024