June 30, 2003	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 29,1424

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GUJRANWALA, June 29: Three people were killed and nine others suffered injuries, two of them serious, when a coaster overturned near Kamoki on Sunday.

The coaster, going to Lahore from Gujrat, overturned as to the result of high speed. Three passengers — Sadiq, Wahid Ahmad and an unknown person — died on the spot while nine other passengers received injuries. The injured including, Shah Faisal, Tariq, Iqbal, Riaz, Khalid and driver Arshad, were hastened to the local DHQ Hospital.

Kamoki police have registered a case and are investigating.

FIVE KILLED: : Five people, including two women, were killed while three dozen others sustained injuries in different road accidents in and around the city here on Sunday.

Sharifan Bibi was on her way to a market along the Sialkot Road when a speeding vehicle of Buildings Department crushed her near the Bypass intersection. She died on the spot.

Fazeelat Bibi of Kotli died instantly while around a dozen passengers received injuries when a Hafizabad-bound wagon rammed into a truck on Hafizabad Road. The injured were rushed to the DHQ Hospital in Qila Dedar Singh in critical condition. A passerby, Sadiq, died on the spot while a dozen passengers suffered injuries when a bus crashed into a roadside tree in Alipur Chattha. The injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital, Alipur Chattha.

Rafiq of Ghummanwala village was knocked down and killed by a speeding coaster when he was crossing the road.

Naeem Ahmad died on the spot while about a dozen others sustained injuries when a Sheikhupura-bound bus collided with a stationary tractor-trolley near Baigpur Morr. The injured were rushed to the Civil Hospital, Sheikhupura, in critical condition.

INDUSTRY : The elimination of inspection by labour inspectors in factories is a revolutionary step of the government which will help promote the domestic industry.

This was stated by provincial Food Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal while speaking at an inaugural ceremony of an industry at Eminabad on Sunday.

The minister said the Punjab government had allocated Rs5 billion for the welfare of factory workers.

Residential colonies, he said, would be built for factory workers in industrial zones where they would be provided better civic facilities, including schools, mosques and play grounds.

He said that self-assessment schemes for industrialists would provide protection to factory workers.

The number of beds had also been increased in all social security hospitals besides the provision of medicines to the patients, he added.

THREATEN : Dozens of councillors of Union Council No 50/14 have threatened the government that they will tender their resignations if the union council Nazim is not sacked.

At a meeting held here on Sunday, they alleged that UC Nazim Haji Shahbaz Ahmad had set up the UC office at his outhouse where he received ‘commission’ from contractors. While development schemes of councillors were kept pending, they added.

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