Four killed in road accident

MANSEHRA: Four persons, including a woman and her daughter, were killed when a taxicab was run over by a truck in Ghazikot area here on Friday. “The speedy truck, on its way to Mansehra from Abbottabad, went out of control, overturned and crushed a cab, injuring four persons,” Mohammad Rafique, the traffic in-charge, told reporters at the accident site. He added that all the occupants of the taxicab were seriously injured. The injured were rushed to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where doctors pronounced Saiqa Bibi and her daughter Ariba, 4, and cabdriver Bashir and an unidentified woman dead. Kinza, 12, stated to be daughter of Saiqa, suffered serious injuries and was referred to the Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad where her condition was stated to be serious.