HARIPUR: Three persons, including a minor boy, were killed and two others were injured in separate road accidents here on Friday.

Ghazi police quoted witnesses as saying that a tractor-trolley plunged into ravine in Sara Chiliyari village, killing two people on the spot and injuring two others, including the driver.

The bodies and the injured were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Ghazi, where the deceased were identified as Afaq Ahmed and Ali Nawaz. The injured, including driver Waqas Ahmed and Mohammad Asif Irshad, were referred to Haripur Trauma Centre in critical condition.

In the second accident, a minor boy was killed when a speeding pick-up van struck him on the Haripur-Taxila Road near Dohriyan Chowk, Hattar Industrial Estate.

Police identified the victim as Mohammad Hussain, 10.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2022