TOBA TEK SINGH: Only 32 shops out of the 270 around Faisalabad’s Clock Tower have fire extinguishers installed, revealed District Emergency Officer Engineer Ehtesham Wahla on Sunday.

He said that the findings were gathered through a survey conducted to assess the implementation of the fire safety regulations.

In a press release, he said that instructions had been issued to shop owners with no fire safety equipment, to install fire extinguishers immediately. He warned that it was mandatory to have fire extinguisher cylinders in every shop, school, plaza and office.

He said that strict action would be taken against those who failed to implement the safety rules.

INJURED IN FIRE: Three persons received burn injuries after a fire broke out in a house due to gas leakage in the Santpura locality of Faisalabad on Sunday.

The Jhang Bazar Police said that a gas leakage had accumulated in a kitchen on the fourth storey of the house. They said that when a fire was lit in the kitchen, the roof of the kitchen caved in because of the blast and a fire also broke out in the house.

Police said that three teenagers got trapped in the fire and they received burn injuries. They were shifted to the Allied Hospital’s burn unit and were identified as Muhammad Rizwan (17), Muhammad Adnan (15) and Muhammad Zain (16).

Meanwhile, a seven -year-old girl was critically burnt after her clothes caught fire in the kitchen of her house in Pabarwala area on the Sargodha Road in Jhang on Sunday.

Rescue 1122 said that Shakila Arif was sitting near the stove where her clothes suddenly caught fire. As a result, she received serious injuries and was admitted to the Jhang DHQ Hospital.

Published in Dawn, January 26th, 2026