ATTOCK, Sept 13: A missing boy was found strangled on Ghazi Barotha Road near Haji Shah village in the jurisdiction of Attock Khurd police station on Saturday evening.

Police said 13-year-old Taimoor Shahzad, a resident of Sheenbagh village, had been missing from his house for the last four days when he went out to buy grocery.

The boy’s father informed the local police who had launched a search for him. Later some villagers informed the police about a body lying in a field near Haji Shah village.

The police reached the site and shifted the body to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.

There was injury marks on the boy’s neck which showed that he had been strangled by the unknown killer(s) who later threw his body at the deserted place, police said.

A murder case has been registered by the police against the unknown killer(s).

In another incident a truck driver, Alam Jan, along with anther man, Iftikhar, was busy changing the tyre of the vehicle at a road side on main G.T. Road near Madrota village, when Iftikhar was hit by a passing truck as a result of which he died on the spot.

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