Girl slaughtered by two brothers

Published February 27, 2006

SAHIWAL, Feb 26: A girl was slaughtered allegedly by two brothers in Chak 2/10-L on Saturday. Reports said Wazeeran had cast a slur on the character of the sister of Ahmad and Nawaz in the village. The girl’s brothers caught Wazeeran in a street and cut her legs with an axe. When she raised an alarm, they slaughtered her with a knife and fled.

Harappa police have registered a case.

ARRESTED: A health department team arrested three quacks from Noorshah Town and one from Chak 64/4-R here on Sunday.

Those arrested are Shameer Ali, Saleem Akhtar, Abdul Aziz and Mohammad Amin. They have been sent to the Central Jail.

LOOTED: Robbers looted Rs150,000 in cash and three cell phones from a ghee mills’ chief executive and two others on Burewala-Chichawatni Road near Chak 39/12-L on Saturday night.

Farrukh Waheed along with colleagues Afzal and Farid was coming from Burewala when one of the tyres of his car punctured. They were standing along the road when some armed men appeared there and deprived them of cash and phones.

Chichawatni Sadar police have registered a case.

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