TOBA TEK SINGH: A child died after being hit by a tractor-trolley on Makuana-Khanuana Bypass Road in Faisalabad on Sunday.

Rescue 1122 said Ali Hussnain (11), the son of Muhammad Irfan of Umer, a resident of Garden Town, was going on his bicycle when the tractor-trolley ran over him. As a result, he was critically wounded. He was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

Meanwhile, four people were critically injured in a collision between a car and a motorcycle on Dijkot-Gojra Road of Faisalabad. They were identified as Shahid (32), Sadia Bibi (24), Zartasha Azam (18) and Usman (3).

Rescue 1122 shifted the injured to the Allied Hospital.

ROBBERY: Robbers looted the house of a trader in Ahmadabad Town of Gojra.

A powerloom factory owner, Liaqat Ali, told Gojra City police that he had gone to his factory when five persons reached his house by a car and broke into it. They made all the women and children hostage at gunpoint and took away Rs300,000 cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth more than Rs2m.

Published in Dawn, February 13th, 2023