TOBA TEK SINGH: Four people sustained critical burns in a fire that broke out on Tuesday in an LPG cylinder shop located at the iron market in D-Type Colony on Samundri Road, Faisalabad.

According to Rescue 1122, the fire was caused by gas leakage from a cylinder. Rescuers rescued the injured people and extinguished the fire.

The wounded were promptly shifted to the burns unit of the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad.

Among the injured are two shop owner brothers, Arif and Kashif, along with two customers Talha and Jawad.

ACCIDENT: A motorcyclist was killed in Khanewal when his motorcycle was run over by a trailer coming from the opposite direction on the Noreen-Nishat overhead bridge on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as 27-year-old Irfan Aslam, Rescue 1122 said.

Meanwhile, in Jhang, an armyman named Gulbaz Khan, 22, was killed after his motorcycle collided with a canal bridge near Mochiwala.

He was on leave in Chak 215-JB to attend his sister’s wedding.

SOCIAL WORKER DIES: Advocate Baba Ghulam Rasool, the caretaker of the shrine of the late spiritual personality Baba Abdul Aziz Mast, was laid to rest on Tuesday on the premises of his father’s shrine in Raja Park locality on Gojra Road.

The funeral prayers, attended by more than 10,000 people, marked the farewell to the 85-year-old senior lawyer and member of the Supreme Court Bar Association.

Baba was known for his expert law practice, and he assumed the role of caretaker of the shrine two decades ago after his father’s passing.

Despite providing thrice-daily meals to hundreds of devotees, this shrine stood out as a unique place, with no “galla” (collection box) kept for collecting funds for the langar.

Published in Dawn, March 13th, 2024