BADIN: Man dies in accident

Published March 1, 2008

BADIN, Feb 29: A man was killed and 25 others were injured when a bus of Ansari Sugar Mills overturned on Badin-Hyderabad Road, on Thursday.

The staff bus of Ansari Sugar Mills was carrying labourers of the first shift. It overturned when the driver swerret hitting a motorcyclist. However, motorcyclist Abdul Rahim Jagsi died on spot. Most of the 25 labourers in the bus received injuries.

Injured Babu Sehto, Ashraf Khaskheli, Atta Mohammad, Majeed Leghari, Asghar, Mumtaz and others were rushed to the Matli Hospital. The condition of injured was said to be out of danger.

No FIR was registered till the filing of this report.

FAULTY GLASSES: Students of different schools in Badin district have said the eye-glasses were unfit for their eyes.

Parents of Asma Noreen, Ajmal Aijaz and others said the eyesight of their children were normal nut the health unit of the National Commission for Human Development arranged eye tests of a large number of children, declared some with weak eyesight and donated defective spectacles to them. They alleged the use of spectacles by their children had proved detrimental.

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