Labourer axed to death

Published January 10, 2007

LAHORE, Jan 9: Unidentified people axed to death a labourer in Green Town early Tuesday morning. Police said Abdul Gafoor, 35, had been living in a rented room in main bazaar. Some people came there and attacked him with axes and escaped.

The body was sent to the city mortuary and a case registered against unidentified killers on the complaint of Abdul Shakoor, the deceased’s brother.

FOUND DEAD: An unidentified man was found dead in the Shafiqabad area on Tuesday morning.

Police said the body of the man, in his thirties, was lying in the open near a banquet hall and he might have died of cold.

The body of a young man was found on Kala Khitai Road in Shahdara.

Police said the man, in his twenties, might have died of cold.

The bodies have been sent to the city morgue.

FIRE: Paperboard worth hundreds of thousands of rupees was reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in a godown in Gulshan Ravi on Tuesday morning.

Reports said the godown owned by Javed Iqbal caught fire owing to a short-circuit at 2:30am.

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