SWABI: Five people were killed in separate incidents in Swabi district on Friday.

Rescue 1122 officials said Anwar Zeb of Lower Dir district, who was currently living in Chota Lahor, was killed in a road accident when a truck hit his motorcycle on Adina-Chota Lahor road.

He was seriously injured and taken to a local hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

Another motorcyclist Mohammad Ayaz, who hailed from Dagai village, was killed in a collision with a truck on Yar Hussain-Chota Lahor Road, while a rickshaw driver Arshad, 43, was injured in a collision between a truck and rickshaw near Swabi Interchange on Swabi-Jahangira Road.

Ajawa Khan, a 12-year-old girl, was hit to death by a dumper on Swabi-Mardan road at Luqman Dheri bus stop when she was crossing the road.

In Baja village, Wajid Khan was killed by his rivals when they opened firing on him on Friday.

Swabi city police SHO Altaf Khan told this scribe that the cause of the incident was an old enmity and an FIR had been registered against the suspects by Wajid’s brother.

Meanwhile, a man drownedin Rashakai Canal in Taraksi union council here on Friday.

The victim was identified as Haji Mohammad, 32, a resident of Rashakai village. Rescue 1122 officials said that on receiving the information they sent a divers’ team to the spot that recovered the bodyand shifted it to a nearby hospital.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2022