GUJRANWALA: Four people, including a railway gatekeeper, were killed while two others suffered injuries in a collision between a car and a locomotive near Kamoki on Monday.

Four friends -- Ghulam Dasatgir, Amir, Imran and Zaigham of Mandeki village, Daska, were on their way to Lahore by a car (LER-2591).

At a level crossing between Eminabad and Kamoki they found the gate closed as a locomotive was about to pass.

The friends, ignoring the gate keeper’s warning, tried to cross the level crossing by pushing open the gate.

Meanwhile, the locomotive reached the level crossing and hit the car, resulting in death of Ghulam Dasatgir, Amir, Imran and railway gate keeper Nawaz on the spot.

Arsalan and Zaigham, who sustained serious injuries, were shifted to the district headquarters hospital.

The bodies were retrieved by cutting parts of he car and handed over to the families of the deceased.

Following the accident, senior railway officers and police reached the spot and got the track cleared after an hour.

ARRESTED: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday arrested 20 people from Sialkot airport who were deported from Turkey, besides detaining a woman along with her minor daughter who was coming from Saudi Arabia.

FIA Deputy Director Khalid Anis said human smugglers charged Rs500,000 to Rs600,000 from the deportees for sending them to Greece illegally.

Turkey’s border security force had arrested them and they were later deported after interrogation, he added.

He said FIA would release them after investigation.

Mr Anis said a woman, Mehru Nisa, coming from Saudi Arabia, was also detained because her name was on the Exit Control List (ECL). She was being interrogated, he added.

PROTEST: The relatives of a condemned prisoner staged a sit-in outside central jail, pelting its gate with stones for not being allowed to meet the inmate.

Reports said convict Waqar Esa Butt of Sitra, Sialkot, was to be hanged on August 5. When his relatives reached the jail to meet him, the officials did not allow them.

They staged a sit-in there and also pelted jail gate with stones.

Later, the Jail Superintendent, Kamran Anjum, allowed them to meet the man on death row under tight security.

Published in Dawn, August 4th, 2015

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