ATTOCK, Nov 22: A court here on Saturday awarded death sentences to two persons in separate murder cases.

The additional district and sessions judge awarded two times death sentence to Kamran, a resident of Rawalpindi, and fined him Rs200,000 for killing a local fruit trader Abid Pervaz and his friend Riasat Ali on December 20, 2007 in the Attock city police area.

The court also awarded death sentence to Irshad and acquitted co-accused Zafar of Jand in another murder case.

A murder-cum-robbery case had been registered by the Jand police against the two persons on the report of Mohammad Rafiq that they had killed his relative Shehnaz Bibi during a robbery attempt.

THREE KILLED: Three persons including a boy were killed in separate incidents in different parts of the district, police said on Saturday.

Rafaqt Hussain of Pind Duwani village told the new airport police Fatehjang that his father Ghulam Abdullah was attacked by the wife of his step-brother Nazakat over pavement construction dispute on a street Thursday night.

He said he was accompanying his injured father and brother Asif Mehmood to the local police station for registering a case against the accused when Nazakat along with his son opened fire on them. As a result, his brother Asif was seriously injured.

He was being taken to the tehsil headquarters hospital but died on the way.

Meanwhile, Saeed Ahmed of Kot Nawab Khan village was hit and killed by a speeding vehicle while he was crossing a road.

In another traffic accident, a six-year-old child was killed on Pindi-Kohat Road near Fatehjhang. Zeeshan Shah was crossing the road when he was hit by a speeding car. He died while being taken to hospital.