Man kills wife, her ‘friend’ for honour
TAXILA: A man shot dead his wife and her alleged friend in his rented house on Gattiya Road in Green Town in the limits of Wah Saddar police on Thursday.
According to police sources, Irfanullah along with his wife was recently shifted from KP to the area and living in the rented house. On Thursday, when Irfan was out of his house, his relative Irshad Khan came from Peshawar. When Irfan came back, he found his wife with the man in his house and shot both of them dead.
Sources said the alleged killer surrendered to the police along with his weapon. The police dispatched the bodies to their native towns in KP after autopsy at the THQ hospital.
Meanwhile, another youth drowned in a water channel in Attock on Thursday, raising the number of drowning incidents to seven during the last three days, police and Rescue 1122 sources said.
They said Muqarab Ali, 16, went to Ghazi Barotha water channel near Alizai village where he drowned while bathing. Local volunteers retrieved the body and shifted it to the THQ hospital Hazro. Due to lack of proper check from the relevant authorities, every year scores of people drown in various water channels, especially rivers Indus, Haro and Ghazi Barotha.
Source: Dawn