Boy electrocuted

Published August 27, 2003

KHAIRPUR, Aug 26: Five-year-old Mohammad Hanif was electrocuted in the Sodho Khan Khaskheli village near Thari Mirwah on Tuesday.

The boy was playing in his house when he came in contact with a power wire.

POWER: Electricity supply to 50 villages of the Thari Mirwah taluka has not been restored following the recent rains.

They have demanded that power supply to the villages should immediately be restored.

GASTROENTERITIS: A woman died of gastroenteritis in the Aarab Solangi village, Kot Diji taluka, on Monday night.

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