ATTOCK - Two persons were killed in two separate incidents in the limits of Hazro Police station on Tuesday. In the first incident, the body of a man was found from a water channel in Ghourghushti area which was later shifted to a local hospital. Later the deceased was identified as 55 years old Zayyad Khan. Police while quoting the family members of the deceased, has said that the man was mentally retarded and fell into the stream accidentally. In the second incident, a teenage boy drowns in river Indus in the same police station limits. Police, while quoting the family members of the deceased, have said that Sameer Khan went to the river for bathing where he drowned. Later his body was retrieved by local rescuers. Respective police registered two separate cases and started further investigation. Meanwhile, Secretary Communications for South Punjab Usman Ali Khan reviewed development work on roads initiated under Rural Accessibility Program (RAP) Phase-II here on Tuesday. The project was initiated with the allocation of Rs476.8 million for construction of six roads each up to 20.35-km long at different places of the district. Superintendent Engineer Highways Iqbal Yawar Wahla and Executive Engineer Muhammad Kamran were accompanying the secretary.
Speaking on the occasion, Usman Ali said they were evaluating construction material through regional testing laboratory and third party consultants regularly. He assured of no compromise would be made on quality and standard of the project. He said that construction of new roads would pave the way for people to transport goods from rural areas to markets in other cities.
Roads projects he reviewed included, Nanik Pur to Ranghay Walla, Watoo Wall Jhal to Chowkian, Bairon Pul to Bati Chowk and Chuk no. 15-8/BR to 19-8/BR.