May 04, 2007	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 16, 1428

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LAHORE, May 3: A 33-year-old man died while his 30-year-old wife fell unconscious after taking some poisonous substance mysteriously in their house in Misri Shah in the early hours of Thursday.

Naeem, a resident of Pakki Thatthi, told Dawn by phone that his elder brother Nadeem was a grocery seller and lived with his in-laws at Sultanpura.

He said Nadeem’s wife Saima cried and called her parents on upper portion of the house.

Semi-unconscious Saima told her parents that Nadeem gave her some poisonous material and took it himself too, Naeem quoted her parents as saying.

Both of them were rushed to the Mayo Hospital where Nadeem died while Saima was stated to be in critical condition.

According to Misri Shah police, Saima told them that Nadeem had given her some medicine to relieve pain and also took it himself.

Naeem said his brother was earning around Rs400 daily and was living a happy life with his wife and children.

“Nadeem visited Samanabad residence of parents in routine and shared things in normal way,” he added.

The couple had two children who were sleeping at the time of incident.

The parents of Nadeem and Saima refused post-mortem examination on the body and buried Nadeem in a graveyard near Samanabad.

MURDER: A man allegedly killed his wife over a domestic issue near Masjid Wazir Khan here on Thursday.

Akbari Gate police said Shamsul Hasan was unemployed and his family comprising wife Yasmin, 40, and three children were facing extreme poverty.

The couple used to quarrel when the wife demanded money for meeting expenses.

They exchanged arguments over the issue and enraged Shams attacked his wife with a knife and a hammer, and murdered her.

The police arrested him with the help of neighbours.

ACCIDENTS: An unidentified man, around 25, was burnt to death when the gas leaked from a cylinder in a Suzuki wagon caught fire in front of the Gulab Devi Hospital on Thursday.

Eyewitnesses told Naseerabad police that the man lost control over the vehicle, which overturned and the leaking gas caught fire which engulfed him.

He was rushed to the Mayo Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

A 65-year-old man was crushed to death by a speeding truck on the Peco Road here on Thursday morning.

Liaquatabad police and Rescue 1122 officials said Muhammad Husain of Head Balloki was sleeping along the roadside when the truck, loaded with watermelons, ran him over.

Muhammad Husain, a truck driver at the Kot Lakhpat fruit market, died on the spot.

Police arrested truck driver Liaquat and registered a case against him.