Man killed on road

Published October 26, 2012

TAXILA, Oct 26:  A man was run over by a speeding dumper on GT road in the limits of Wah Saddar police area on Friday killing him on the spot.

Besides, some armed men looted a house after scaling the wall of Rafeeq Manzoor while he was sleeping.

In first incident, Farhan Ali was crossing GT road when the dumper hit him killing him on the spot.

The robbery victim told police that a gang of four masked men scaled the wall of his house and made all family members hostage at gun point. —Correspondent

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