TAXILA: Six people were killed and seven others in different incidents in Attock on Saturday, police and rescue sources said.

In the first incident, four persons belonging to the same family were killed and three others injured when their car rammed into a trailer on Hakla- D .I . Khan motorway near Kot Fateh Khan in the limits of Fatehjang police station. According to spokesman for the district emergency services Rescue 1122, the ill-fated six members of the family among them four brothers were going from Rawalpindi to their native town Dhak in Pindigheb town when the accident occurred near Kot Fateh Khan.

The car driver could not see the trailer due to thick fog and rammed his vehicle into the trailer. The dead were identified as 23-year-old Ithisham, his brothers Sufian, 44, and Kashif, 30 and Atiya Bibi 26.

er two years old son Arif and one of the brothers of the deceased identified as Rashid, 34 and Sharjeel, 34 were also injured in the incident.

The dead and injured were shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital Fatehjang from where injured were referred to Benazir Bhutto hospital Rawalpindi due to their crucial injuries.

In another incident, a rickshaw driver was killed and four others were injured in a rickshaw- coaster collision near Baryar village over Haro bridge in the limits of Attock police station.

Resultantly rickshaw driver identified as 45 years old Jan Mohammad died on the spot while four others, among them two brothers, were injured.

The injured were shifted to district headquarters hospital Attock.

Moreover, an employee of tehsil municipal administration was killed when he lost control over his motorcycle due to speeding and collided with a roadside tree.

Minor girl ‘sexually assaulted’

A girl of grade nine was allegedly raped by a rickshaw driver while a teenage girl was abducted in two different incidents in the limits of Wah Saddar and Taxila police station, police sources said on Saturday.

In the first incident, the girl reported to the police that she was waiting for a ride to her school when she was taken by Mustajib Shah, a rickshaw driver, to his house on gunpoint, where he sexually assaulted her.

After making her way out of his residence, the girl told her parents about her ordeal and was brought to the police station.

Police have registered a case against the rickshaw driver after medical examination at Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Taxila confirmed the offense and launched a search for him.

In the second incident, Mohammad Asif reported to the police that his 18-year-old sister was going to some relatives’ house when she was abducted by some unknown persons in multi-housing society within the limits of Taxila Police on Saturday.

Police have registered a case and begin hunt to recover the abducted girl.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2023