October 18, 2006	Wednesday	Ramazan 24, 1427

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LAHORE, Oct 17: Two passers-by were injured in a mysterious blast on Shahdra-Sheikhupura road here on Tuesday night. The explosion took place at a fruit trolley parked in front of a PTCL exchange at Main Bazaar, Jiya Moosa, at about 10pm.

The injured, Nabeel (13) and Raheel Amjad (15), were shifted to Mayo Hospital where their condition was stated to be out of danger.

A bomb disposal team was at the sight looking for some evidence to determine the cause of the blast.

According to police, the bomb disposal squad’s initial report suggested the trolley was carrying some fireworks.

Soon after the incident, the capital city police chief Khawaja Khalid Farooq and DIG (operations) Aamir Zulfikar reached the spot. An emergency meeting of divisional SPs was also called later in an effort to beef up security.

Shot dead: A wagon driver was allegedly shot dead by his five rivals in City Raiwind here on Tuesday.

Police said Muhammad Asif, 32, a resident of Kot Sethan Farooqabad, was driving a wagon carrying passengers, when five people intercepted him on Raiwaind Road.

They dragged Asif out of the wagon at gunpoint and opened fire, killing him on the spot.

The wagon conductor told police that Manzoor alias Jhori, Maqsood alias Soodi, Azfal and their two unidentified accomplices killed Asif,

According to police, both parties had an old enmity and Asif’s father was already in jail for killing a person of the attackers’ group while his brother was on bail.

CRUSHED: A person was crushed to death by a speeding train in Cantonment area here on Tuesday.

Police said Samilullah, 40, was crossing the railway tracks when got crushed under the Faisal Express, coming from city railway station.

Railway police shifted the body to the city morgue.

Meanwhile, a middle-aged man who was injured seriously by some unidentified people on Sunday night in Wahdat Colony, died at a hospital.

Police said Muhammad Akbar, 55, a resident of Ranwan, had received serious head injuries at the hands of some unidentified people while he was sleeping outside his house.

The police registered a case against the culprits on the complaint of Faryad, the deceased’s son.