Five drown in GBHP channel

ATTOCK, July 24:  Five young men drowned in Ghazi Barotha Hydropower’s (GBHP) channel and Indus river on Tuesday while taking bath to beat the heat.

Mohammad Hashtum and Mohammad Idrees, resident of Ghorghusti village, drowned in GBHP’s  channel. Later, some local rescuers fished out their bodies.

Some days back, Idrees’ brother Hafiz Waheed died in a similar fashion in the channel.

Strong currents of GBHP channel also carried away Mohammad Adil and Sajjad, and their bodies could not be traced. A resident of Mominpura village drown in Indus river. — Correspondent

Motorcyclist killed on road

CHAKWAL, July 24: A motorcyclist was killed while another one received injuries when their vehicles hit each other.

Raja Rahim, a resident of Dhoda village, was travelling on his motorbike when another bike driven by Liaquat Hussain coming from the opposite side hit him at Jand Link Road.

Both the injured were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where Raja Rahim died while Liaquat was reported to be out of danger. — Correspondent

Body recovered, two held

FATEHJANG, July 24: Two persons have been arrested in connection with the killing of a man whose head was found hanging from an electric pole here about a week back.

The police said the headless body of the victim, Noor Rehman, had also been recovered.

Noor Rehman, a resident of Azakhel in the Nowshera district, worked as a butcher in the Fatehjang town and lived in Chasan Wali Dheri.

In the same neighbourhood lived Saeed and his wife, also natives of Azakhel. Noor Rehman allegedly kidnapped the wife of Saeed on July 17, 2012, and took her to his native town.

The same day, Saeed along with his relative Saddam and his wife Dilshad reached Azakhel and killed him. They later brought the head of the victim to Fatehjang and hanged it on the electric pole.

A large number of people from Azakehl work in Fatehjang as labourers.

After about six days, ASP Fatehjang Haroon Rasheed Khan and SHO Chaudhry Mohammad Akhtar of Akbarpura (Nowshera) police station managed to arrest Saddam and his wife and recovered the headless body.

However, the other accused is still at large. — Correspondent