Father, two sons crushed by tractor-trolley

Published June 19, 2026 Updated June 19, 2026 06:56am

TOBA TEK SINGH: A father and his two minor sons were crushed by a speeding tractor-trolley on Faisalabad’s Roshanwala Bypass Road on Thursday evening.

Rescue 1122 officials said that they were riding a motorcycle which was crushed by the tractor trolley. They were identified as Nadeem (26), and his two sons Ahmed (7) and Rehmat (2).

Meanwhile, a labourer was burnt alive after falling into a brick kiln’s fire pit on the Jaslani Moron Warburton Road in Nankana Sahib district. The deceased, identified as Shahbaz (30), was putting fuel in the kiln when he suddenly slipped into the pit.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2026

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