MANSEHRA, May 6: Three people, including an education official of the Northern Areas, were killed when their pick-up fell into a ravine in Pattan tehsil of the Kohistan district on Sunday.

According to police, the pick-up was going from Islamabad to Gilgit when it plunged into the ravine near Datchi Banda at about 1am, killing deputy secretary education Masood Hussain, Fida Ali Raza and Mudassar Ahmad. Police and the local people retrieved the bodies from the ravine.

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