GUJRANWALA, June 5: A factory worker was killed and two injured when the wall of a flour mill’s storehouse fell on the roof of an adjoining steel mill on GT Road here on Tuesday.

The flour mill’s management had reportedly stored hundreds of thousands of wheat bags in the storehouse that made one of its walls collapse. The storehouse’s rubble fell on the steel mill’s roof, which caved in, burying three steel mill workers under the rubble.

Later, locals recovered the body of Adnan and injured Ishaq and Iftikhar from the rubble. The injured were admitted to the district headquarters hospital.

NAZIMS: A meeting of union council (UC) nazims said here on Tuesday that 34 of 64 UCs being led by nazims from opposition parties had not been given funds for community development projects.

At the meeting, presided over by UC nazim Lala Idris Ahmad, participants protested against the alleged discrimination and sought development funds at par with UCs led by nazims belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML).

They said that President Pervez Musharraf had announced Rs 8 million for each UC to complete development projects, but the government released these funds only to PML nazims.

They also said that coordinators would supervise developments in their constituencies, while PML nazims would themselves supervise these projects in their areas.

They said that no coordinator had been appointed in their UCs so far.