MANSEHRA: Three people were killed, and four others were critically injured when a glass-laden truck struck them in Oghi on Friday, residents and rescuers said.
They said a truck hit a group of people and also damaged a vehicle after its driver lost control of the vehicle due to brake failure.
Residents and rescuers, after hectic efforts for hours, retrieved seven people from under the wreckage of the truck and shifted them to Tehsil Hospital Oghi, where doctors pronounced Mohammad Niaz and Fakhar Islam, residents of Swabi, andKhurram Shahzad of Peshawar, dead. The injured were referred to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital, Abbottabad.
In another incident, two young shepherds were stoned to death allegedly for grazing their herd in the Kaghan Valley.
Mehnaz Bibi, 40, whose family is currently settled in Naran and belongs to H aripur, while lodging an FIR with the police, stated that her son, Abdul Rehman, 13, and nephew Rasheed, 14, had taken their herd to the meadows for grazing when Alamzeb and other accused showed up at the spot.
She added thatthe accused, who also belonged to Haripur,first exchanged words with her son and nephew and then started pelting them with stones, leaving both seriously injured, and they later succumbed to their injuries.
Ms Bibi said that the accused managed to flee, along with two others, who rushed to the spot with guns and took them away from the crime scene.
The bodies were shifted to Tehsil Hospital Balakot, and later handed over to families.
Police lodged an FIR under sections 302, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code and started raids to arrest the accused.
Meanwhile, a man drowned in the Indus River in the Harban Basha area of Upper Kohistan district.
RELIEF ITEMS SEIZED:The Lower Kohistan police have busted a gang and recovered the relief items donated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
‘We have arrested six people, three of them government employees, involved in stealing and smuggling mosquito nets, blankets, kitchen sets and tents to Mansehra and Swat,’ SP Investigations Zahid Khan told a press conference in Pattan on Friday.
Hazara DIG Nasir Mehmood Satti has constituted an investigation team after police seized over 570 mosquito nets, donated by UNHCR, from a passenger bus at the Shagai checkpost on the Karakoram Highway earlier this week.