04 January 2004	Sunday	11 Ziqa'ad 1424

LAHORE, Jan 3: Two labourers were killed while four others were injured when the roof of a textile mills caved in at Hanjerwal, some seven kilometres from here, on Saturday.

Police said that the owner of the Sitara textile mills in Ahbab Colony hired labourers to construct a portion of the building. Some six labourers reportedly were busy laying lintel on the roof when it caved in with a bang and they all were stuck under the debris.

The staff of the mill and passers-by rushed to the rescue of the labourers and shifted them to the Jinnah Hospital.

Asif, 20, and Shakeel, 22, were pronounced dead on arrival at hospital while the condition of Mohsin, Asghar, Zafar and Javed was stated to be stable.

Later, the bodies were handed over to the families without autopsy. No case had been registered so far, said clerk Arshad of the Hanjerwal police station.

GANG BUSTED: A three-member gang of robbers was busted, the CIA staff claimed on Saturday.

A CIA police team raided a house in Model Town on a tip-off and arrested Bakshi, Shahbaz and Ahsan. Stolen goods worth hundreds of thousands of rupees besides illegal weapons were recovered from their possession.

The police claimed that the accused had confessed to have committed 33 robberies in Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Karachi.

The accused have also been nominated in 21 cases in various police stations of the city.