BAHAWALPUR: Six people, including two women and three children, were hospitalised after they suffered from food poisoning on Sunday night at Adda Azeemabad on Jalalpur Road, Lodhran.

According to media coordinator Muhammad Safdar of Lodhran Rescue 1122, teams along with ambulances rushed to a house and found six members of a family unconscious. They were informed that the family members fainted after taking tea. The rescuers rendered them first aid and shifted them to Lodhran DHQ Hospital.

They have been identified as Sobi (18), Iqra (15), Khursheed Bibi (35), Asif (9), Rizwan (19) and Kashif (6).

Meanwhile, a man was killed by a speeding truck at village 5/BC on Hasilpur Road near Lal Sohanra, about 35 kms from here in the early hours of Monday.

According to Rescue 1122, a truck laden with canola oil was parked along the road and its driver was replacing the punctured tyre when an an empty truck coming from Hasilpur side hit it, killing the driver on the spot. The body was shifted to Lal Sohanra health centre. Police are investigating the matter.

WASTE MANAGEMENT: Deputy Commissioner Zahid Parvaiz Wariach has directed that the scope of the Bahawalpur Waste Management Company (BWMC) should be widened to all the tehsil headquarters in the district.

The DC issued the directive at a meeting wherein he was briefed about BWMC’s functioning in the city by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Naeem Akhtar on Monday.

The DC stressed that the company should adopt the self-reliance policy and enter into agreements with private housing colonies for sanitation.

Earlier, the CEO in his briefing informed the DC that the company needed funds for the purchase of new vehicles and dumpers in the city as the current fleet of 100 vehicles had been used for eight years and outlived its utility.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2022