SHANGLA: A government school headmaster shot himself dead in Machkandai area of Puran tehsil here on Friday afternoon.

Dr Ghafoor Khan, medical officer at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Puran, told Dawn that body of Saiful Islam Arshad was brought to the facility for autopsy.

He said the postmortem report of the body would be ready on Saturday (today). However, he said family members of the deceased told him that he shot himself dead with a pistol inside a bathroom.

The deceased was currently serving as headmaster of a government middle school in Machkandai area. He was deployed as a superintendent of matriculation examination at a government high school in Chawga area of Puran.

Published in Dawn, April 27th, 2024