TOBA TEK SINGH: It took more than 24 hours to plug the breach occurred in Gogera branch canal near Bhagat Canal Rest House on Friday.

Irrigation and Rescue 1122 employees and farmers used moderm machinery for the purpose and succeeded to fill the breach on Saturday evening.

As a result of breach, crops on hundreds of acres in Chak 359-GB and other adjacent villages were inundated.

Initially the breach was 10-foot wide, which later widened to 40 feet.

DACOITS: Dacoits injured a rickshaw driver at Faisalabad on Canal Road in the wee hours of Saturday.

Rescue 1122 and police said Abdul Rashid was intercepted by robbers near Gattwala. When he did not stop, they opened indiscriminate fire. Rashid sustained critical injuries and was shifted to the Allied Hospital.

In another incident, a robber shot at and injured a security guard in Gulfishan Colony on central graveyard road of Ghulam Muhammadabad.

Police said Dolphin squad personnel were chasing a suspected robber. When guard Habibullah tried to overpower him, he fired at him injuring him seriously.

In the meantime, the robber fell on the road and the police overpowered him in injured condition.

Both the guard and the robber were shifted to the Allied Hospital.

The robber was identified as Amer Haroon and according to police he was involved in a number of robberies.

FIRE: Yarn, cloth and other material were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out due to a short circuit in a textile mills on Saturday in Khurrianwala near Faisalabad on Lahore Road.

HONEY BEES: Eight children were bitten by honey bees at Faisalabad in the Government Primary School, Asgharabad, located on Khurrianwala-Shahkot Road on Saturday.

Rescue 1122 said the children were attacked by the bees when they were standing near a tree in the school compound.

Abdullah 12, Saqlain, 10, Kamran,10, Zahra, 10, Tafshala, 10, Faizan, 10, and Mubashar, 10, were shifted to Khurrianwala rural health centre.

MURDERED: Rivals killed a man at Thikriwala located on Jhang Road in Faisalabad on Saturday.

Police said Shehroz Naveed,18, received multiple bullets when his two rivals opened fire on him and he died instantly.

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2023