ISLAMABAD, May 26: A constable of the Punjab police, who had come to strengthen the capital police, was electrocuted on Friday night. Ghulam Qasim was staying in the police lines Rawat along with a number of police personnel of different districts of the Punjab.

The incident occurred when the constable accidentally touched a live wire while loading some luggage on a bus to come to Islamabad for security duty during Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry’s address at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. The body was later sent to his native town after funeral prayer at the police line headquarters.

INJURED WOMAN DIES: A woman who suffered a bullet injury during a brawl with her husband and in-laws in Dhoke Khokharan on May 5 died in the hospital on Saturday.

Asia Bibi, 26, was taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where she was operated upon. Asia had developed differences with his husband soon after their marriage seven years ago.