TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of taxi drivers staged a protest on Wednesday at Shahbaz Sharif Chowk over removal of their vehicles from the taxi stand.

They set tyres on fire and blocked traffic on different roads for about an hour.

The clothes of one of the protesters, Abid Husain, caught fire and he received serious burn injuries. He was shifted to DHQ Hospital.

Taxi Drivers Association President Noor Muhammad said the TMA was not allotting land for a parking lot for their cabs, while the TMA and traffic police had removed their vehicles from the stand where they parked their vehicle until now.

Later, City Station House Officer Sheikh Rizwan and TMA officials held talks with the protesters and promised to allot land for parking taxis over which they ended their protest.

DEAD: A youth died after a bamboo hit him on his head during a windstorm on Wednesday during an Urs at a shrine near Kamalia.

Police said the annual Urs was under way at Dholri Sharif shrine and pilgrim Amer was sitting in a tent when suddenly a storm started and a bamboo from the tent’s ceiling fell on his head. He was injured seriously and admitted to Kamalia THQ Hospital where he died.

Published in Dawn, March 26th, 2015

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