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TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 23: A dozen students of the government’s nursing school became unconscious on Friday night immediately after they had taken their dinner.
The students were Uzma, Khalida, Farhat Yasmin, Shagufta Kanwal, Aasia, Tahira, Razia, Shahnaz, Shamim, Shakila, Farzana and Azmat Bibi. They were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital’s emergency unit where doctors suspected food poisoning. Two of them were admitted there while the others were relieved after treatment.
When contacted, the school principal said there was a usual vegetable dish served to the students, who might have fallen unconscious because of food poisoning.
ABDUCTED: Two women were abducted in different parts of the district on Saturday.
Reports said three people, including Zulfiqar Ali, abducted a girl from her house at Chak 766-GB.
A woman was abducted by seven people at Chak 708-GB when she was returning home from a doctor’s clinic.
KILLED: A motorcyclist was killed when a Faisalabad-bound bus knocked him down near Korian adda, Gojra-Painsra Road, on Saturday.
Muhammad Siddiq, a resident of Chak 362-JB, was on his way home by his motorcycle (RNG-4665) when a rashly-driven bus (PR-2730), coming from Gojra, hit him. He died instantly.
