TOBA TEK SINGH: Six people, including two seminary students, died in three separate road accidents on Thursday.
In one incident, three workers of a textile mills died after being run over by a mini truck on the Faisalabad-Sheikhupura Road on Thursday.
A Rescue 1122 report said that all three workers were waiting for their ride outside the mills after their shift ended.
The report said that they were hit by a speeding mini truck. As a result, they were critically injured and were rushed to the Khurrianwala rural health centre. The doctors referred them to the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, but they succumbed to their wounds.
They were identified as Tanweer Ahmad (28), Muzammal Abbas (30) and Faisal Rehman (21).
The Balochni police have registered a case against an unidentified mini truck driver, who sped away after the accident.
In another incident, two teenage students of a religious seminary died after being hit by a vehicle on the Gojra-Jhang Road near the bus stop of Chak 430-JB.
The Gojra Saddar police and Rescue 1122 officials said that as per the statement of seminary administrator Qari Muhammad Sharif, he had sent both Ehsanullah (18) and Mohsin Raza (19) to bring petrol from a nearby fuel station. He claimed that a bus or a truck ran them over when they were crossing the road.
They were residents of Chak 223-JB of the Bhavana tehsil of Chiniot and were memorising the Holy Quran at the seminary.
Meanwhile, a speeding bus ran over a motorcyclist identified as Mudassar Ali (16) on Rajana Road in Toba Tek Singh. As a result, the motorcyclist died instantly, while his mother received minor injuries and was shifted to the DHQ Hospital.
HARASSER ARRESTED: A teenager was arrested on Thursday by Faisalabad Iqbal Town CCD In-charge Umar Sarfraz Warraich for allegedly harassing a woman a day ago.
Police said the teenager, identified as Shurjeel Afzal of Chak 225 RB Malkanwala, was traced through the Nadra database.
A video of the accused was released in which he said that he was a habitual harasser and he teased women on roads. He said that now the CCD had ‘convinced’ him to never do this again. In the video, the accused could be seen with a bandage on his hand and arm.
He said that when the police came, he tried to speed away on a motorcycle but he collided with a roadside electric pole. As a result, he claimed that he fractured the same hand and arm with which he had touched the woman. He promised in his video that he would treat all girls walking on the roads as his sisters.
ARRESTED: The Madina Town police in Faisalabad have arrested a couple on Thursday for allegedly torturing a minor girl who was working in their home as a maid.
Complainant Sana Asif of Jaranwala said that her daughter Mahrukh Fatima (16) had been employed as domestic help in the house of trader Shahbaz Ahmad. She claimed that the trader, his wife Nadia Bibi and his mother severely tortured her daughter and broke her tooth and she also had other torture marks on her body.
Police spokesperson said that the couple was arrested and the victim was shifted to the Allied Hospital for treatment.
Published in Dawn, October 10th, 2025
