TAXILA: Six persons, including two teenagers, were killed while another was injured in separate accidents in various parts of Attock and Wah on Thursday, police and Rescue 1122 sources said.
In the first accident, two persons were killed while another was seriously injured when a motorcycle rammed into two people crossing the GT Road near Muneerabad in the limits of Wah Saddar police station.
Police sources said Ahmed Hassan andhis friend Faisal were crossing the GT Road when a motorcycle, recklessly driven by Muhammad Nisar, knocked them down. As a result, both received fatal injuries and died on the spot, while the motorcyclist was taken to Wah General Hospital, from where he was shifted to Rawalpindi due to his critical injuries.
Separately, two persons, including a 10-yearold, were axed to death in Kot Fateh Khan village in the limits of Fatehjang police station.
Sources said 30-year-old Bakhsish and 10-year-old Qayyum were sleeping in theirhousewhenunknown assailants entered after scaling the walls and axed them to death. Police attributed the incident to some old enmity.
Separately, a teenage shepherd drowned in the Ghazi Barotha water channel near Haji Shah in thelimits of Attock Saddar police station.
Police, quoting eyewitnesses, said 15-year-old Abdullah was grazing his goats when he accidentally slipped into a water channel and drowned.
Moreover, a 43-year-old tractor driver was killed when the tractor he was driving overturned in the Para Sheenbagh area in the limits of the same police station.
The respective police stations registered separate cases and launched further investigations. Correspondent