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GUJRANWALA, Oct 28: More than 100 students and teachers besides the principal of the Government Girls Community Model College, Ladheywala Warraich, fell unconscious after consuming bakery items at a college function on Tuesday.
Reports reaching here said the institute administration arranged a function on its premises for which bakery items were brought from Qila Deedar Singh for refreshment. Immediately after taking the foodstuff the teachers and students fell unconscious.
Some of them were taken to a village dispensary and many others transported to the District Headquarters Hospital. College principal Khalida Parveen, also a victim, said she had submitted an application with the police for an action against the bakery.
Meanwhile, the health department authorities confiscated the bakery stuff and sent it to Lahore for laboratory analysis.
TRAFFICKER: A South African national recently captured by the Federal Investigation Agency in Gujranwala for his involvement in human trafficking is also involved in the murder of a Lahore’s woman and a narcotics case.
The agency is also interrogating him about his ‘fake marriages’ with several women who approached the law enforcers for an action against him.
FIA Additional Director Hussain Asghar said on Tuesday several women complained that John Smith extorted money from them for sending them to the US and the UK after showing them his wives. He said the accused was settled in Gujranwala for the last three years and several cases had been registered against him in Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta for human trafficking.
GEPCO: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company has reduced the duration of loadshedding by two hours and further cut will be made after Nov 1, claims Gepco Chief Executive Officer Rana Muhammad Ashraf Zahid.
Speaking at the advisory committee meeting here on Tuesday, he gave out that the company’s loadshedding quota had been reduced from 512 megawatts to 312MW.
