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DADU, May 10: The Masjid school-teachers took out a rally here on Wednesday in protest against the manager of the National Bank branch, Dadu, for his refusal to release advance salaries. They also held a demonstration outside the press club.
They were led by office-bearers of Masjid School Teachers Association (MATA) Mohammad Umer Lund, Ghulam Rasool Panhwar and Mohammad Yousuf Kumbhar. They said that 300 masjid school-teachers had completed documents for advance salary loans from National Bank but the manager had stopped advance salaries to them.
When contacted, the NBP Dadu branch manager, Ghulam Raza Jamali, said that 5,450 employees of different departments had got advance salaries but the bank had stopped advance salary loans to all employees from June 2005 as 303 employees of education, police and district council departments had failed to pay instalments.
KILLED: Two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident on Chhandan bridge near Dadu-Johi road on Wednesday.
According to reports, a motorcycle collided with a wagon as result of which two motorcyclists Mohammad Sharif Babbar 40 and Aziz Ahmed 32, died instantly. Three others identified as Ali Nawaz, Rasool Bux and Naveed were injured.
SUICIDE: A young girl, Fatima, daughter of Mohammad Juman Babbar, committed suicide by taking pesticide following some domestic problems in the Bello Patan Village on Wednesday.
MEASLES DEATH: Three children died of measles in Bakhar Jamali and Dodo Birhamani villages in the Johi taluka on Monday.
They were identified as two-year-old Arbab Jamali, and his twelve-month-old sister Rafiyat and twelve-month-old Kamran Lashari. About 25 children under the age of eight years were suffering from measles in Pario Jamali, Dodo Birhamani, Bakhar Jamali and Qasim Rodnani villages of the taluka.
EDO (health) Dr Dhani Bux Thebo said that awareness programme would be launched in Kachho so that people should administer drops of measles and other diseases to children.
