TOBA TEK SINGH: Another man who was burnt in a gas cylinder blast at Jhang about a week back succumbed to his injuries at hospital, taking the death toll of the incident to five.
Hafiz Ali was among 14 people who were burnt in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder blast near Ayub Chowk on the Chiniot Road. Four persons had previously died in the incident.
In another incident on Monday, a youth allegedly killed himself at Gojra.
Ali Raza (18), the son of Khalid Pervez, a resident of the Government Low Income Housing Colony, hanged himself from a ceiling fan at his house over unknown reasons. Gojra City police shifted the body to the tehsil headquarters (THQ) hospital for autopsy.
In a robbery incident in Faisalabad, robbers shot two persons on resistance near Pipanwala Chowk on the Canal Road. Two motorcyclists intercepted Arsalan Tariq (19) and Abdul Rehman (20) to rob them at gunpoint but they offered resistance. At this, the suspects opened fire on them, leaving them wounded. Both the injured were shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.
KASHMIRI WOMAN: The woman who allegedly was kidnapped from Khulana, a village in the locality of Chakothi police of the Hattian Bala district of Azad Kashmir, told the Toba police that she was 13-year-old when she was abducted in the earthquake of 2005.
Asia Bibi said one Ghulam Mustafa Kamhar had kidnapped her and brought her to Jhang. He kept her at his house for two years and later sold her to an aged man, Allah Yar, of village Shahpur. Allah Yar contracted a marriage with her and she faced a lot of mistreatment from him.
Earlier in her video on social media, Asia had disclosed the names of her father, mother and maternal uncle were Raja Bashir, Nasim Bibi and Raja Abdul Rehman, respectively. The video reached her family and they approached police for action.
District police spokesperson said Asia was staying temporarily at Darul Aman on the order of Pirmahal Magistrate Mudassar Maqsood and she would later hand over to Chakothi police.
Published in Dawn, April 16th, 2024
