TAXILA: A gang of alleged car lifters killed a taxi driver after snatching his vehicle in the jurisdiction of Hazro police station, the police said on Monday.

They said that 60-year-old Naeem Akhter made a living through a rented Suzuki van. On the day of the incident, he was hired by unidentified vehicle lifters posing as passengers from Havelian for a ride to Peshawar.

On the way to their destination, they killed him, snatched his vehicle and dumped his body in a hilly area near the Haroon village in the limits of the Hazro police station, sources said.

The police shifted the body to a tehsil headquarters hospital for medico-legal formalities, registered a case and started further investigation.

Separately, a 25-year-old girl was abducted by unknown suspects from the limits of Taxila police station on Monday, police sources said.

A complainant named Abdul Hameed told the local police that his daughter was abducted by unidentified suspects after leaving for tailoring classes.

The Taxila police have registered a case and launched a probe to trace the abducted woman.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2024