14 injured as coach falls from bridge

Published October 29, 2007

HARIPUR, Oct 28: Fourteen people were injured, four of them seriously, when a speeding Rawalpindi-bound coach fell from the Rizwan Shaheed Bridge near Jhari Kas, about 28 kilometres from here, on Sunday evening.

Local people took the injured to the District Headquarters Hospital in Haripur and a hospital in Wah. The four critically injured people were shifted to the Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad.

Eight of the injured were identified as Khan Zahir, Mrs Meeran Jan, Yasir Ali, Naila Bibi, Saima Bibi, Nasir Ali, Dewa Khan and Sakki Bibi.

SUICIDE: A young man committed suicide in the Chamba Pind village in the Kot Najibullah police area here on Sunday.

Police quoted Khan Afsar as saying that his son Imran, who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, locked himself in a room and shot himself with a pistol. Imran died on the way to the Haripur District Headquarters Hospital. Mr Afsar, however, did not say why his son committed suicide.

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