August 15, 2008	Friday	Sha'aban 12, 1429

LAHORE, Aug 14: Over 100 people, mostly youngsters, were injured in road-related incidents, including wheelie, on Independence Day on Thursday, Edhi and Rescue 1122 officials said.

Many people injured on roads, whose exact number could not be ascertained, were treated at private hospitals, Dawn learnt.

Police claimed that no casualty or injury related to wheelie was reported from any part of the city.

An Edhi official told Dawn they had shifted 35 injured people to different hospitals, while Rescue 1122 officials said their first-aiders treated as well as shifted no less than 75 people, including children and women, to hospitals. Rescue 1122 said complaints regarding road injuries were pouring in even after mid-night.

Police and frenzied motorcyclists played cat and mouse throughout the day in all parts of the city. Youngsters flocked to city roads on motorcycles, decorated with flags, indulging in wheelie, reckless driving and speed violation.

However, heavy police deployments on Canal Road, Ferozepur Road, Gulberg’s Main Boulevard and The Mall restricted the revelers from violations, police claimed.

Police caught motorcyclists and took them to police stations. Club-wielding policemen and Mohafiz Force and as well as Tiger Squad personnel were seen chasing motorcyclists to stop them from converging at traffic signal points.

Operations police arrested 49 people for wheelie and three kite-flyers besides impounding 128 motorcycles for reckless driving and speed violation and 50 motorcyclists for running their machines without silencers.

Senior Superintendent of Police (operations) Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed said that no traffic related casualty was reported and police remained vigilant the whole day. strangled: A man strangled his two sisters and threw their bodies into the River Ravi on Thursday for their alleged affairs in the jurisdiction of Shahdara Town police on Thursday.

Police said Riffat, 25, and Fozia, 23, were strangled with ropes by their brother Ghulam Murtaza who suspected they had affair with some people of the locality.

Residents of Sadat Colony situated near Badami Bagh, said both sisters were running a beauty parlor in the area.

After throwing the bodies into the river, Murtaza surrendered himself to the police and confessed to his crime.

Police fished out the bodies and shifted them to the city morgue for autopsy.