MANSEHRA: Four members of a family were killed when a passenger van plunged into a deep ravine in Sakargab area of Battagram on Saturday.

The van bound for Bisham from Sakargah area in Allai tehsil met the accident after driver Amir Mohammad lost its control while negotiating a sharp turn.

All the four riding the van, including the driver, Mohammad Ismail, Mohammad Ilyas and Nadir Shah, died instantly.

Local residents and police retrieved the bodies from the ravine and shifted them to the Allai Government Hospital from where they were shifted to Sakargah.

Syed Iqbal Shah, head Moharrar of Paznag police station, said all the four members of a family died instantly after their van plunged into the ravine.

He said local people and police retrieved bodies from 700 feet deep ravine after hectic efforts.

The Pazanag police registered a case of the accident and began investigation.

S C H O O L T E A C H E R ARRESTED: The anti-corruption establishment of Mansehra on Saturday caught a schoolteacher redhanded for receiving Rs200,000 bribe for appointment in the education department.

`We have arrested a schoolteacher and seized Rs40,000 currency notes specially marked for identification,` circle in charge of ACE Mohammad Sohail told reporters here.

Mr Sohail said Shaukat IIussain Shah, who had applied for the posts of primary schoolteachers, approached the ACE complaining teacher Shaukat Khan had been demanding Rs200,000 for the said appointment.

He said tests and interviews for the said posts were underway.

The circle in charge of the ACE said his department had marked Rs40,000 currency notes before they were given to lWr Shah for payment to the suspect.

He said during the raid, not only the said notes were recovered but also national identity cards of more than a dozen people, which the suspect had received for appointments, were also recovered from his possessions.

Mr Sohail said the suspect was produced before local judge Amir Ali Shah, who remanded hirn in the police custody for two days.

He said local ACE was striving to check corruption in the district in line with the directives of its director, Fiaz Ali Khan.