CHAKWAL, Feb 10: Two sisters were killed while their father and mother sustained injuries in a road accident near Dhoke Pathan on Friday.

Anwar Khan, a resident of Kamrial village in tehsil Pindigheb, was going home on a motorbike along with his daughters Komal, 4, Sunbal, 5 and wife Ghulam Fatima.

As they reached near Dhoke Pathan, a bus knocked the motorcycle down. A passerby rushed the two injured sisters to a hospital in Talagang where the doctors pronounced them dead. Anwar Khan and his wife Ghulam Fatima were shifted to THQ hospital, Pindigheb where they were stated to be stable. — Correspondent

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