Three injured in billboard collapse

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— Dawn
— Dawn

TOBA TEK SINGH: Three people were critically injured and as many adjacent mobile phone shops badly damaged when an under-installation billboard of a mobile phone company and a wall collapsed here at Gojra on Tuesday night.

Police said mobile phone company’s three employees were installing a billboard at Anarkali Chowk in Mehdi Mohallah Bazaar when a wall collapsed due to load of poles and iron bars, causing injuries to three workers who were rushed to Gojra THQ Hospital from where doctors referred one of them -- Habib -- to Faisalabad’s Allied Hospital.

The structure of billboard damaged three shops as well.

Published in Dawn, July 8th, 2020

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