LAHORE, Aug 30: Two picnickers were drowned and three others, including a Rangers personnel, went missing in the BRB canal near Batapur on Monday.
Four people who managed to get out of the canal told police that there were nine men on board a motorcycle-rickshaw when it skidded off the canal bank and fell into the mighty water channel.
Muhammad Bashir, also a Rangers employee who managed to swim to safety along with colleague Muhammad Razzak and two friends Waqas and Yasir, identified the dead as rickshaw driver Muhammad Shahid and Arif Ahmad.
Bashir said Muhammad Ali, also a colleague, and two other friends, Shahbaz Ali and Muhammad Rashid, were still missing. They were returning from Ravi Siphon after a picnic. The bodies of Shahid and Arif were handed over to their families while search for the missing was on till 11pm.
MURDER: Two people, including a minor boy, were found murdered in the city on Monday. Quoting family, police said Muhammad Usman, 11, went missing from his Garhi Shahu house on Sunday evening and was found strangled at a deserted place near the Lahore railway station.
Torture wounds on the body led police into believing that the boy might have been sodomized before murder. His body was sent to the city mortuary for autopsy. Majeedan Bibi of Lakhoder, Manawan, told police that her nephew Imran, 24, left his house to visit a friend.
He was shot at and wounded by some unidentified men at some distance from his house. The attackers escaped on a motorcycle, she said quoting villagers.
ACCIDENT: Three people were killed in accidents in various parts of the city on Monday. Qamar Ahmad, 25, suffered injuries when a van hit him in Shafiqabad. He was rushed to the Mayo Hospital where he died.
A unknown man, about 65, was killed when another van hit him near Bhatti Chowk. Pervaiz, 28, of Dholanwal, Nawankot, left his house to visit his brother in Chuhng, the police quoted his family and added that a speeding bus hit him when he was trying to cross a road in Chuhng. He died instantly. Except for the unidentified elderly man, the bodies were returned to respective families.