SAHIWAL, Sept 7: Three people were killed and 36 sustained injuries, 20 of them serious, when a bus rammed into the boundary wall of a factory at Qadirabad on Sahiwal-Lahore Road on Wednesday. Reports said that the driver of the bus (LSK-3495), going from Sialkot to Multan, fell asleep which caused the tragic incident. Consequently, conductor Shaukat Ali, gunman Muhammad Sharif and Pervez died instantly while around three dozen passengers suffered injuries. They were shifted to the local DHQ Hospital where the condition of Shahid, Shahzad, Azhar, Idrees, Ghaus, Allah Ditta, Zulfiqar, Taqi Mehdi, Gul Khan, Asghar, Asif, Bashir, Javed Iqbal, Zahoor Abbas, Razzaq, Yousaf, Zubair Khalid, Aqeel, Rafiq and Aqul was said to be serious.

Yousafwala police have registered a case against the absconding driver.

SUSPENDED: The power supply remained suspended for more than six hours in Sahiwal owing to some technical fault.