ISLAMABAD, May 7: A man was killed in Rawalpindi while a woman died after shooting herself ‘accidentally’ in Kalar Syedan on Sunday.

In the first incident, Abdul Sattar suffered multiple injuries when his baton-wielding rivals attacked him in the jurisdiction of Sadiqabad police station.

First he was taken to Rawalpindi General Hospital, where he was provided first aid. Later, he was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences after his condition deteriorated.

However, he died during treatment in the hospital.

In the second incident, Shaista Bibi, aged 23, whose husband worked in Saudi Arabia, was cleaning a pistol when it went off and a bullet pierced into her body, killing her on the spot.

Police shifted the body to the DHQ hospital for postmortem and, termed it an accidental death.

Meanwhile, a doctor of National Institute of Health, Asghar, suffered multiple injures when a vehicle hit him neat Tipu chowk.

He was shifted to Pims where he was kept in the ICU. According to doctors, he had suffered serious head injures.