Three killed in Skardu

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SKARDU, Sept 13: Three persons including a woman died here the other day in separate incidents, sources said.

They told Dawn on Friday that the first incident had taken place at Hoto village, 23km west of Skardu city, where a man, Anwer Ali, had drowned in Indus River.

In the second incident, a man died after falling from a mountain in the Rondu valley. He had gone to graze his cattle.

The third incident took place at Ghanche District where a woman committed suicide by jumping into the river. She was a patient of blood pressure.

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