TAXILA: A man shot dead his wife and her alleged friend in his rented house on Gattiya Road in Green Town in the limits of Wah Saddar police on Thursday.

According to police sources, Irfanullah along with his wife was recently shifted from KP to the area andliving in the rented house.

On Thursday, when Irfan was out of his house, his relative Irshad Khan came from Peshawar. When Irfan came back, he found his wife with the man in his house and shot both of them dead.

Sources said the alleged killer surrendered to the police along with his weapon. The police dispatched the bodies to their native towns in KP after autopsy at the THQ hospital.

Meanwhile, another youth drowned in a water channel in Attock on Thursday, raising the number of drowning incidents to seven during the lastthree days, police and Rescue 1122 sources said.

They said Muqarab Ali, 16, went to Ghazi Barotha water channel near Alizai village where he drowned while bathing. Local volunteers retrieved the body and shifted it to the THQ hospital Hazro. Due to lack of proper check from the relevant authorities, every year scores of people drown in various water channels, especially rivers Indus, Haro and Ghazi Barotha.

Boy dies while making TikTok A teenage boy lost his life while making a TikTok stunt along a railway track near Sarai Kharbuza.

Zahid, 16, along with his friends was posing for a video while walking on the track when the moving train hit him, police officials said. When rescue workers reached the spot, the boy had dead.

Injured woman dies A woman who lost her legs after a passenger train ran over her near Jand railway station in Attock on Wednesday succumbed to her injuries in a hospital in Rawalpindi on Thursday.

The woman identified as wife of Amant Ali was crossing the railway line when the Attock-bound Thall Express coming from Multan ran over her. Correspondent