TIMERGARA, March 29: Three people, including a child, were killed in different incidents in upper and lower Dir districts over the past two days, officials said on Wednesday.

Saleem Khan, resident of Kamalay village, reported to the Wari police that his son Zahir Shah was killed by his cousin Sher Ali while he was working in his fields.

The motive behind the killing is stated to be a land dispute.

Police registered a case against the accused.

In another incident in the jurisdiction of the Barawal police, four brothers — Jehanzeb, Pervez, Dilarum and Siraj — clashed over a dispute on the distribution of ancestral property.

As a result, Jehanzeb was killed.

Police registered a case against the remaining three brothers on the complaint of the deceased’s widow.

In yet another incident, a four-year-old boy was run over by a speeding truck in the Haji Baba area in Talash.

Name of the child could not be ascertained.

The Talash police registered a case against truck driver who had escaped after the accident.

Meanwhile, two men, Dilawar, 50, and Rahim, 70, died of dog bites in Talash. The two men had been bitten by pye dogs some two months ago.

Sources said that the deceased had been administered anti-rabies vaccines at the rural health centre in Talash but they did not work.

Due to increasing deaths of rabies patients, the people of Talash have called upon the authorities concerned to take steps to kill pye dogs in the area.

They told Dawn that a number of children had been bitten by pye dogs in different villages of Talash.