GUJRAT: An 80-year-old woman was burnt alive while a shopkeeper sustained burns as a result of two incidents of LPG cylinder blast in Kotla and city’s tyre market locality on Friday.

Sakeena Bibi of Sariya Road vicinity was burnt alive in kitchen fire while Younas received burns in a bid to switch on a stove.

Gepco fraud: The FIA has arrested three more officials of the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) for giving an agricultural connection to a private housing society of Sialkot.

A spokesman for FIA (Gujranwala Zone) said the arrested include Sub-Divisional Officer Ali Raza, Asif Maalik and Farhat Abbas.

He said the suspects had also been involved in clearing an 11KV high transmission line above the roof of complainant’s house where a boy lost his both arms since the cables were dangling very low.

Last month, FIA had also arrested a line superintendent from Sialkot.

FIA Director Muhammad Bin Ashraf said the remaining suspects would be nabbed soon.

Published in Dawn, February 7th, 2026