Attock-Three persons were killed while four other injured, two of them critical in different incidents in various parts of Attock on Saturday, police and rescue services said.
In first incident, a man stabbed to death his brother and injured his sister in law over land dispute in village Shahdher in limits of Hazro Police station. Police sources said that there was dispute over land between Hafiz Sabir and Ahmed Nawaz. On Saturday, Hafiz Sabir came to his brother’s house and after exchange of harsh words, he took out his dagger and attacked his brother, when his wife came to rescue her husband he also attacked her and later fled from the scene after leaving them in a pool of blood. Both the victims were taken to tehsil headquarters hospital where Ahmed has succumbed to injuries while his wife was shifted to Rawalpindi due to her critical injuries. In second incident, security guards of a feed company shot a man suspecting him to be a robber on Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway near Burhan Interchange in limits of Bhattar Police station. Sources said that three armed men posing as customers came to a feed factory and made hostage all the employees on pistol point. Later, they snatched all the cash from employees and fled. As the fleecing robbers were chased, they sneaked in to Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway to escape arrest. Meanwhile, Faisal, 33, who was going to Manshera from Rawalpindi in a car saw the currency notes spread along with road and he stopped to collect it. The security suspecting him to be a robber, opened fire at him resultantly he died. Abdul Basit, brother of the victim has claimed that the Bhattar police kept his brother in custody for three hours with bullet injury and did not shift him to hospital resultantly he died due to excessive bleeding. He also lamented the police that when he along with other family members came to receive the body, the police officials also detained them and kept them in illegal confinement for many hours. Separately, a motorcyclist was crushed to death by a speedy dumper on GT road opposite cadet college Hassanbdal.
The man, not identified so far, was going on GT Road when a speedy dumper recklessly driven by an unknown driver ran over him resultantly he died on the spot. Separately, four persons belonging to same family were injured when a truck rammed in to a car on Rawalpindi-Kohat Road in limits of Fatehjang Police station. The injured were identified as Shahdat Nawaz, Akash Shahdat, Ayesha Shahdat and Farooq. The injured were taken to THQ hospital Fatehjang from where Shahdat was taken to Rawalpindi due to his critical condition. Respective police registered separate cases and started further investigation.