TOBA TEK SINGH: High quality tobacco worth Rs10 million was gutted after a trailer caught fire on M-3 motorway between Pirmahal and Rajana interchanges on Monday evening.

Rescue 1122 officials say the trailer carrying 37 tonnes of iron scrap and tobacco was on way from Karachi to Muridke, Sheikhupura.

Driver Asif Qasim of Rahim Yar Khan, who received minor injuries, said the trailer overturned after its tie-road got broken and it caught fire.

Rescue 1122 firefighters, called to the scene, controlled the fire.

When this report was filed, cooling process was underway.

Asphyxiated: Two sanitary workers were asphyxiated in a manhole of sewer line near Haji Hotel Chowk located on Chak Jhumra-Chiniot Road, Faisalabad, on Monday.

Rescue 1122 said one of the deceased, a municipal corporation employee named Shakil Masih (40), stepped into a choked manhole to open it but soon became unconscious due to toxic gas.

His helper, a private sanitary worker named Suhail Masih (35), went into the manhole to rescue him but also fainted. Rescuers pulled both men out, but they had already died.

BOOKED: Faisalabad’s Samundri City police booked on Monday 14 Jamaat-i-Islami activists on the charge of blocking road by staging a demonstration and a sit-in against inflated electricity tariff and price hike.

Complainant ASI Ijaz Hussain Aseer claimed in the first information report registered under sections 290 and 291 of Pakistan Penal Code and sections 5 and 6 of the Punjab Sound System (Regulation) Act 2015, that Kissan Board president Tanweer Hussain Vaince and his 13 accomplices created hurdles on Grain Market Chowk and Circular Road and refused to allow the passing of traffic while they also violated the ban on use of loudspeaker.

No arrest had been made till the filing of this report.

MURDER: A youth was murdered by his opponents on Monday at Faisalabad near Dhobi Ghat ground.

Police said Shahzaib (20) was returning to his home in Lala Zar Colony on GCUF Road after meeting his prisoner father Nazir Ahmad in district jail on his motorcycle when his rivals opened fire on him as a result he was critically injured and died instantly.

Meanwhile, a man was electrocuted on Monday at Chak 243-RB located on Roshanwala bypass Road, Faisalabad.

Reports said Muhammad Faiz (40) was standing near an electric pole in the street when he touched the pole he received an electric shock as a result he died on the spot.

Published in Dawn, July 16th, 2024