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Published 05 Jun, 2008 12:00am

PESHAWAR: Two killed, five injured in Peshawar

PESHAWAR, June 4: Two people were killed and five others injured in three incidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday.

The CNG tank of a car burst at a filling station on the Khyber Road near the University Town, which resulted into the death of driver Idrees, a resident of the Samar Bagh area in Dir. Four people, Amim, Zia Maaz, Wafa and Huma, were injured, who were taken to hospital.

All the injured were Afghan refugees, said an official of the West Cantonment police station.The explosion damaged a portion of the filling station building.

In the Landi Arbab area, Noorul Haq was killed over a land dispute.

Noman Shah told police that his father had developed some differences with his brother Abdur Razaq.

He said local elders had tried to resolve the issue, but had not succeeded.

He alleged that his uncle Abdur Razaq and cousins Faisal and Waqas, both sons of Mohammad Ishaq, had shot at his father who was taken to the Lady Reading Hospital where he died.

In another incident in the same area, an aged man, Azmat Khan, riding a cycle was critically injured when two cars hit him at the same time.

One of the two drivers, Gulab Gul, told police the man driving the other vehicle escaped and he took the injured to the Khyber Teaching Hospital.

Meanwhile, police claimed to have arrested 35 proclaimed offenders in different parts of the city and seized two Kalakos, one Kalashnikov and 13 pistols from them.

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