ATTOCK: A man was arrested for attacking and injuring his wife with an axe while cleaning the house front in the street in the Kot Sondkai area in Hassanabdal on Wednesday.
The victim reported to police that she was cleaning the front of her house in the street when her husband, Muhammad Ismail, came and brought her inside the house while beating and trashing her. Later, he attacked her with an axe, injuring her critically.
Hassanabdal police arrested the accused after a medical examination of the victim which confirmed torture and injury.
In a separate incident in Taxila, a man was shot and injured for resisting a robbery bid in the Karamwal area on Wednesday, state-run APP reported.
The victim namely, Muhammad Arsalan told police that he was going to his house after drawing cash from a local bank located on Museum Road. A robber injured him and snatched cash from him at gunpoint, the police said.
The injured have been shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Taxila. The police registered a case against the unidentified suspect and launched further investigation.
