HARIPUR, April 6: Three women were killed on Friday, in different incidents in remote areas of Haripur District.

Police said Zeenat Bibi, 65, wife of Mohammod Ramazan of village Mohra, was sleeping in the courtyard of her house along with her daughter-in-law, when some unknown armed men entered the house, apparently to attempt a dacoity. But both the women, alone at home, got awakened, and in a bid to pose resistance the elderly woman was shot, and killed on the spot.

In the second incident, Sumaira Bibi, 19, daughter of Safdar Nawaz, committed suicide in village Muradabad.

Family sources said Sumaira was distressed and gloomy for the last several days, apparently, owing to financial crises of her family and protracted illness of her father.

She, the sources said, locked herself in the room, doused her body with kerosene oil and set herself on fire. She was rushed to the hospital with 90 per cent burn wounds, but could not survive.

Zeenat Bibi, in third the incident, of village Baso Mara died when the clay-built roof caved in on her while plastering it.

LOCAL GOVT: The NWFP minister for local government, law and parliamentary affairs, Attar Minallah, has said that some people are against the new system of district government and are hell bent on undermining it through one or the other way.

“It is the duty of elected representatives and the masses to make the new system a real success”, he suggested this while talking to a group of union Nazimeen who called on him at the side line of opening ceremony of The Lexicon Public school here the other day.