RAWALPINDI, Nov 21: Three people were found murdered in different parts of the twin cities while a policeman was injured when his colleague's rifle went off accidentally in police lines here, police said on Sunday.

Jahangir Khan, an employee of a godown, informed the Ganjmandi police that stinking smell was emitting from a well situated on the premises of the godown. The police recovered the body, which was stuffed in a gunny sack, and sent it to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem. The body seemed to be 10 to 15 days old.

A labourer, said to be in his 50s, was found battered to death in his house at Barakahu. Police said Adam Khan was found murdered after his colleagues came to his house for calling him to duty.

Police said the murder could be an outcome of an old enmity because nothing was found missing from the room. In the third incidence, a taxi driver was found murdered in a field of Golra police area on Sunday. Mohammad Obaid had left his house on his cab (FDC-9886) on Saturday.