May 28, 2002	Tuesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 15,1423

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LAHORE, May 27: Four people were killed and 13 others sustained serious injuries when fences and a cell-phone booster on rooftop of a plaza fell in Samanabad late on Monday night.

Quoting witnesses, police said several people were fleeing home to escape windstorm when the fences and the booster fell on them. Residents called out the police and fire brigade, bomb disposal squad and civil defence who took out the entrapped people. Three of them were recovered dead and the rest were rushed to the Mayo Hospital. Of them, one died after first giving first-aid. At least 13 other people were being treated till the filing of this report.

Doctors told the police that six of the injured men were stated to be critical. The bodies were in the hospital till late night. No case has so far been reported.

The police said only one of the dead was identified as Naveed, 18. He was on his way home on his motorcycle when he came under the fences, they said, adding that several families were coming to the hospital to identify the dead and the injured people.