GUJRAT: Three people, including a labourer, were killed in different incidents on Monday.

Rescue 1122 official said 24-year-old labourer Salamat Khan was killed after the wall of an under-construction house caved in in Pooran village of Sara-i-Alamgir Saddar police precincts. He was trapped under the debris and a rescue team pulled him out of the debris but doctors pronounced him dead.

In another incident near Gujrat city Lorry Adda, 15-year-old labourer Adeel Nawaz of Sargodha was shifting iron rods to the roof of an under-construction house when the same touched high voltage electricity wires. He received an electric shock and was shifted to Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital where doctors termed his condition critical.

A motorcyclist was killed after his bike skidded on a speed breaker along a bridge over upper Jhelum Canal in Qazi Chak village.

In another mishap, Ghazanfar, 22, sustained serious injuries when his bike hit a tractor-trolley in Ajnala village of Karianwala police precincts.

Rescue officials shifted the injured man to ABSTH where doctors pronounced him dead.

Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2024