TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman and her minor son, who had received critical burns in a fi re incident three days ago, succumbed to their injuries in burn unit of Allied hospital on Thursday.

Reports said the fire had broken out in their house located on Chak Jhumra Road at Khurrianwala due to a short circuit as a result Ujala Parveen and her son Ismail, 4, were burnt.

Doctors had said 80pc parts of bodies were affected by the fire.

ACCIDENT: Seven passengers were injured after their Samundri to Faisalabad van hit a divider at Jhall Chowk on Railway Station Road in Faisalabad on Thursday.

Rescue 1122 said all injured people were shifted to the Faisalabad DHQ Hospital and identifi ed as Nabeela Yasmeen, Ehsan Elahi, Sharif, Arsalan Sultan, Memona Wasim, Bashiran Bibi and Gulzar Ahmad.

In a separate incident, epilepsy patient Bilal drowned in a semnullah.

Rescue 1122 said Bilal, while sitting on the bank of the nullah in Chak 496- GB, suffered an epileptic attack, causing him to fall into the nullah and drown.

COTTON: The fi rst meeting of Faisalabad district committee for cotton crop management was held under the chairmanship of DC Abdullah Nair Sheikh on Thursday.

A press release said Deputy Director (agriculture) Khalid Mahmood briefed the participants about the measures to promote cotton crop and achieve the assigned target.

He said this year Faisalabad district had been given a target of 24,000 acres of early sowing and 11,000 acres of seasonal sowing.

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2024