TOBA TEK SINGH: Five passengers received serious burns after a van caught fire due to leakage of LPG cylinder installed in it in Faisalabad on Sunday.
Rescue 1122 said the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) was being decanted into the cylinder in the Chiniot-bound van at a shop near the bus terminal on the Rajbah Road when the fire broke out. The fire spread in the van. As a result, five persons were burnt.
They were identified as Asghar, his minor daughter Zainab, Rabia and her brother Asad and Kinza. Two other passengers were also injured when they jumped out of the van in panic through its windows. They were identified as Perveen and Sajida Bibi. All the injured were shifted to the Allied Hospital.
FOUR DIE: Four persons died in various incidents in the Faisalabad area on Sunday.
A man was electrocuted at Khanuana Adda on the Satiana Road of Faisalabad.
The man, identified as Mahboob, was entering washroom when he touched a live electric wire hanging along the door. He received heavy electric shocks and died instantly.
A boy, identified as Abdul Rahman, drowned in Gogera Branch Canal in Samundri.
The deceased was taking bath in the canal when he went into deep water and drowned. His body was taken out by divers after hectic efforts.
A youth allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in the Saeedabad locality of Ghulam Muhammadabad area of Faisalabad.
Asif, a resident of Toba Tek Singh, ended his life after a girl refused to marry him.
Another youth identified as Tajammal Abbas also committed suicide by consuming poison at Chak 493-JB Battianwala of tehsil Shorkot. Sources said the deceased quarreled with his parents over a monetary issue and ended his life
ARRESTED: The National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) police arrested a man and impounded his car after Fesco’s costly electric wires worth millions were recovered from his car near the M-3 interchange in Samundri.
The police spokesperson said due to suspicious movement of the driver, his car was stopped and searched. The suspect, identified as Kashif Raza, a resident of Sheikhupura, was handed over to Samundri police along with his car and wires.
In another incident, Jhang’s Kotwali police arrested a constable of the Qadirabad Police Station for stealing the motorcycle of one Fakhar Abbas from the parking of the DHQ Hospital.
A police spokesperson said Constable Faraz Elyana had been arrested after a case was registered against him on the orders of the DPO.
PROTEST: Scores of people in Gojra blocked traffic for half an hour on the Jhang Road near the tehsil headquarters hospital by torching tyres on it in protest against Fesco over its failure to repair fallen electricity wires in their village.
The residents of Chak 296/JB told the reporters that they had complained to Fesco some days back that cables were dangling from poles at very low level which could cause an accident but to no avail. When the same cables fell on the ground in the windstorm on Sunday, Fesco staffers reached there to repair the cables after several hours delay. The Fesco staffers and locals scuffled over the issue and the staffers went back without repairing the falling wires.
Later police officers held talks with protesters and assured that Fesco would repair the cables. At this, the protesters ended their protest.
Hospitalised: Seven members of a family fell unconscious on Sunday allegedly after taking poisonous meal in Oddan Wali Basti of Chak 466 GB in Samundri tehsil of Faisalabad.
According to Rescue 1122 officials, Latif (50), his wife Safia (45), their sons Shafiq (25) and Babar (22), daughters Sumayya (18), Samra (16) and a relative, Sumaira (20), fell unconscious after taking meal that contained some poisonous stuff.
They were shifted to the Samundri Tehsil Headquarters Hospital by a Rescue 1122 team, where their condition was said to be stable after treatment.
Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2024
