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GUJRANWALA, Jan 3: Six workers sustained burn injuries following an explosion in the furnace of a steel factory on Sialkot Road on Tuesday.
It is learnt that the workers were throwing scrap in furnace when an explosion took place. Furnace contractor Ali, workers Sajid, Shafiq, Rana Sarwar, Asif and Allah Yar sustained burn injuries. They were rushed to the DHQ hospital in critical condition from where they were shifted to Mayo Hospital, Lahore.
The factory owner did not take any interest in shifting them to hospital.
GANG BUSTED: Naushera Virkan police claimed to have arrested four members of a gang of dacoits within half an hour after robbing passengers of two buses from the outhouse of a former nazim of union council on Tuesday.
Police said the robbers had set up a picket on Naushera Virkan-Sheikhupura Road and looted the passengers of two buses, including drivers and conductors. Some passengers informed police by mobile phone and a team rushed to the crime scene.
Police got information from passengers and later conducted a raid at the outhouse of former nazim of Randhir union council Chaudhry Ghulam Murtaza and arrested them along with stolen goods and illicit arms.
HUMAN SMUGGLERS: The FIA, Gujranwala region, has started an operation against human smugglers with special teams raiding at residences and outhouses of suspects.
FIA Deputy-Director (Gujranwala) Muhammad Akram Naeem Bharoka told a meeting of senior officers here on Tuesday that the grand operation had been launched against the 333 human smugglers, who had recently been enlisted. The raiding teams had already arrested 25 human smugglers, he claimed.
He said 204 cases had been sent to court and Rs61 million recovered from the human smugglers, which they extorted from youths to send them abroad in 2005.
He admitted that some ‘black sheep’ in the agency had links with human smugglers and they helped them avert arrests. The officials had already been suspended from service and inquiries were being conducted against them, he added.
