BAHAWALPUR: A woman and a child died after she allegedly took poisonous pills along with her two infants due to a dispute in Mohalla Taliwala in Uch Sharif on Saturday.

According to Ahmedpur East THQ Hospital sources, 35-year-old Shakila had a dispute with her husband and she allegedly decided to end her life along with her daughter and a minor son.

The hospital sources claimed that the woman allegedly consumed poisonous wheat pills and also administered the same to her four-year-old son Amir Hamza and two-year-old Amara. Shakila and her daughter died while her son was said to be in a serious condition.

BURNS UNIT: The Bahawalpur Burns Unit (BBU) would be built at a cost of Rs1.80 billion, out of which, the Punjab government has released a sum of Rs150 million.

This was stated by Bahawalpur Commissioner Irfan Ali Kathia during his visit to the finalised site of the unit near the Government Sadiq Abbas Civil Hospital on the Jhangi Road, Bahawalpur on Saturday.

The commissioner was informed that the burns unit, with an initial strength of 50 beds and to be built on a 44-kanal piece of state land, was expected to be completed within three years.

Dawn learnt that the government had provided about Rs2 billions of funding for this long-standing demand of the local population after a passage of fifteen years. It may be mentioned that these funds were promised in 2015 by the then prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif after a petrol tanker exploded on the Karachi-Lahore-Peshawar (KLP) highway near Ahmedpur East and 132 people died in the incident. Most casualties were caused by the lack of a burns unit in the area and critical patients were shifted to Multan, where many died due to the delay in the provision of emergency treatment.

DROWNS: A twelve-year-old boy drowned in River Sutlej near Dera Din Panah in Lodhran district on Saturday.

According to Rescue 1122, Samama Saqib along with his father and grandfather had gone fishing at the river, where he drowned. The rescuers rushed to the scene and after diving retrieved his body and handed it over to his parents.

Published in Dawn, May 3rd, 2026