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GUJRANWALA, Jan 6: Three of the six workers who had sustained burns in a furnace explosion in a steel mills some three days ago died in the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, on Friday. Reports said six workers of the steel mills situated on Sialkot Road had sustained burn injuries when a furnace exploded. The injured were taken to the Mayo Hospital where Asif, Shafiq and Yar Mohammad died.
Their bodies were handed over to the families.
The condition of the remaining three was also stated to be serious.
INJURED: Outlaws on Friday looted three houses and shot at and injured a trader and his son on resistance in four different strikes in and around the city here on Thursday.
Hanif and his son Mushtaq were on their way by car when three motorcyclists intercepted them. The gunmen snatched from them Rs30,000 in cash and two mobile phones. They injured both the man and his son with gun shots for offering resistance. They sustained injuries and were rushed to the local DHQ Hospital in critical condition.
Some 13 outlaws barged into the house of Subedar Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmad (retired) and later an adjacent house of his brother Sheikh Aslam in Radiala Warraich village by scaling its boundary walls. They held hostage inmates, locked them in two rooms and collected Rs480,000 in cash, jewellery worth Rs250,000, three mobile phones and other valuables and escaped. Before fleeing, the bandits locked the houses from outside.
While four bandits sneaked into expatriate Shahzad’s house in Shah Jamal locality in Ghakkhar Town. They made hostage women and children at gunpoint, scooped Rs60,000 in cash, jewellery valuing Rs200,000 and electronic goods and disappeared.
