TAXILA: Three women were killed and 10 others injured in two different rain-related accidents on GT Road in the limits of Hazro police station of Attock on Saturday, police and rescue sources said.

In the first incident, three women on board a rickshaw were killed and three others injured when a Rawalpindibound passenger van coming from Peshawar knocked the rickshaw at a U-turn on GT Road near Madorta bus stop within the limits of Hazro police station.

The bodies were shifted to a government-run hospital.

In the incident, a woman identified as Zahida Bibi lost her life while her husband, Muhammad Ishaq, was critically injured.

The injured and eyewitnesses said that the rickshaw driver lost control due to strong winds and rainwater accumulated on the road.

Separately, seven people on board a passenger bus, among them a woman were injured when the bus skidded off the road.

The Peshawar-bound bus operated by a private transport company was coming from Lahore, while the injured ones were shifted to different hospitals.

Hazro police registered two separate cases and launched further investigations.

Meanwhile, police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a motorcycle lifter and recovered 11 stolen motorcycles.

A police spokesman said that acting on a tip-off, a police party raided the hideout of the suspect and recovered as many as 11 stolen motorcycles from his possession.

The police spokesman has said that during the preliminary interrogation, the suspect confessed to lifting motorcycles from various commercial and residential areas of the city.

Separately, Attock police arrested three alleged drug peddlers during a crackdown against the drug trafficker.

The police spokesman said that Attock Khurd and Rango police separately arrested three peddlers and recovered over three kilograms of hashish from their possession.

Respective police registered separate cases under section 9-C of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act 1997 against the suspects and launched further investigation.