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TOBA TEK SINGH, June 24: Building collapse during the construction of a plaza basement on Sunday left a mason dead and five members of a family living in an adjacent building injured at Ghousia Chowk, Pirmahal.
Information gleaned by Dawn revealed that a mason, Yaqoob, was busy working on a plaza basement when the entire structure collapsed as did an adjacent building. As a result, Yaqoob was buried under the debris and five members of a family residing in the adjacent building — Tahir Aslam, his wife Zarina, daughter Sawera and sons Usman and Hamza — suffered injuries.
Yaqoob was pulled out of the debris and taken to Pirmahal rural health centre where he died after an hour. It is alleged that there was no doctor at the RHC where the injured could not be given proper treatment.
The other injured were admitted to hospital where the condition of Tahir Aslam was stated to be critical.
Police claimed that they had taken into custody Sharif, the owner of the under-construction plaza.
SUICIDE VICTIMS: A woman and her paramour, who committed suicide on Saturday night after failing to tie the knot, were buried close to each other at Chak 738-GB near Kamalia on Sunday.
It is reported that the woman, who already had a child, had illicit relations with a youth and she eloped with him. Her husband got registered a kidnap case and the police arrested the youth.
Later, the youth had reconciliation with the woman’s husband who refused to divorce his wife. The dejected woman took poison and died and when the news reached her paramour he too followed the suit and ended his life.
DIES: Dr Shafiq Naeem, who was injured in a road accident near Pirmahal a few days ago, breathed his last at the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, on Sunday.
