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GUJRAT, Dec 14: Five people, including two army officials, were killed while 10 others sustained injuries in an accident on the Sargodha Road, Kot Fateh Din on Friday.
Reports reaching here revealed a wagon (KB-4347) rammed into a roadside tree when its tie-rod dislocated. Driver Mir Khan, Arshad Ali, Naureen and two armymen, Qadeer and Siddique, died instantly while 10 others sustained injuries. The injured were taken to a rural health centre (RHC) in Kunjah from where five of them were rushed to the DHQ Hospital due to their critical condition.
They were identified as Zainab, Azra Tariq, Mehwish, Ridah, Mahboob, Sajjad Husain, Abdur Rahman, Sajid Ali, Waqas and Yousaf.
MUNICIPAL BUS STAND: An army monitoring team and police officials foiled district Nazim’s bid to shift the municipal wagon and bus stand to their previous private sites, Dawn learnt here on Friday.
Sources said DCO Agha Nadeem, under the directives of District Nazim Chaudhry Shafaat Husain, had ordered to shift the municipal wagon stand to the previous sites. These stands had been shifted jointly by the army monitoring cell and administration some four months ago as they had become a permanent cause of traffic hazards, they added. Also lack of security prompted them to relocate these stands.
Gujrat tehsil Naib Nazim Mian Haroon Masood, also a transporter, had reportedly requested the Nazim to use his influence in the shifting of these stands.
Traffic DSP, Mahmoodul Hassan Qureshi and SSP Riaz Ahmad brought the situation into the notice of Col Zaheer of the monitoring cell, sources said.
Police sources quoted SSP Riaz Ahmad as saying that they would play their role in shifting Mr Masood’s stand to the site of the municipal stand.
DIED: Illegal immigrant Arshad Husain of Kula Chore, Jalalpur Jattan, died while trying to enter Greece from Turkey on Dec 8.
This was stated in a fax message received in the local SSP office from the Turkish embassy.
