TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad Regional Police Officer Dr Muhammad Abid Khan suspended on Tuesday eight police officials for their negligence that caused murder of three brothers and injuries to another in an attack on the Tandlianwala Saddar Police Station the other day.

A press release said that during the initial investigation, all the suspended policemen had been proved guilty. They included Saddar SHO Mubashir Hussain Wahla, City SHO Pervez Khalid, former SHO Basharat Ali, investigating officer Imran Sarwar, head constables Naeem Hassan, Riaz Ahmad and Noman Ali and Constable Muhammad Usman.

The sources disclosed that inquiry committee members had come to know that all four persons accused in triple murder case had surrendered before police two months ago but their entry of arrest was shown in the record on Jan 1.

FIRE: A fire broke out in the newly revamped area of neonatology department’s Pediatric Unit No 1(emergency) of Allied Hospital Faisalabad on Tuesday which was extinguished by the staff with the help of fire extinguishers.

Three children admitted to the wards were safely rescued.

The medical superintendent has constituted a five-member committee to inquire into the incident. The committee included Prof Dr Nazir Ahmad, the head of department of neurosurgery (head), Dr Saleem Tahir, additional medical superintendent (works), Faisal Yaqub, engineer in-charge Faisalabad Medical University and Zafar Hussain, sub-engineer electrical Allied Hospital.

ENCOUNTER: A robbery suspect was killed in an encounter with Pirmahal police.

Police spokesperson claimed that two outlaws after looting passengers were present near Kohal Kalan locality located on Kamalia Link Road when police chased them. They hid in a sugarcane field and opened fire on policemen, which was retaliated. When the firing stopped, police found one of the suspects, dead in the field while his accomplice had fled. The deceased could not be identified.

GAS BLAST: A man was burnt seriously after a blast occurred at a house in locality of Hassan Villas in Faisalabad.

Rescue 1122 report said due to leakage, gas had accumulated in a room where blast took place. As a result, the house was damaged and house owner Abdul Khaliq (45) was burnt. He had been shifted to Allied Hospital.

ACCIDENTS: A man died after a car hit him near Chak 315-GB on the Toba-Shorkot Cantonment Road.

Rescue 1122 officials said the deceased, identified as Tasawar Abbas (34) of Gujrat, was crossing the road when the car ran him over. As a result, he was seriously wounded. He was shifted to Chak 316 GB Chuttiana Rural Health Centre where he succumbed to his injuries.

Meanwhile, a boy fell down from running tractor-trolley near Chak 471-GB in Samundri tehsil and died.

Name of 16-year-old boy could not be known.

CAR: Athara Hazari police in district Jhang recovered a snatched car from Balochistan and arrested one of the snatchers.

Jhang police spokesperson told the media that some days ago, four suspects snatched a car from Sajjad Ahmad near Athara Hazari. He said police traced the mobile phones of snatchers through geo-fencing and other modern technology and located them in Balochistan.

He said a police team went there and in a raid not only recovered the car but arrested the main suspect, identified as Gul Rehman Khan.

Published in Dawn, January 8th, 2025