SAHIWAL: After an eight-hour operation, Rescue 1122 pulled two labourers alive from an old well where they had been buried nearly 30 feet beneath bricks and mud while dismantling the structure near Adda Booti Pall on Old Harappa Road.
Reports said Rao Sadaqat had hired the two men to extract bricks from the abandoned dry well. Eyewitnesses said the labourers were removing bricks from the well’s wall when a large mass of mud suddenly collapsed, burying them under debris.
Rescue 1122 teams reached the site at around 10:45am. District Emergency Officer Zafer Khalid said three rescue vehicles, a heavy crane and more than a dozen rescuers were immediately dispatched.
Deputy Commissioner Samiullah Farooq also visited the site to oversee the rescue operation.
After nearly eight hours of continuous efforts, rescuers successfully pulled both labourers out alive. They were identified as Muhammad Asif, 35, a resident of Kacha Kho, and Allah Rakha, 15, of village 10/AR in Khanewal district.
Villagers said both men were conscious despite suffering injuries and shock when they were shifted to Sahiwal Teaching Hospital. Hospital sources said their condition is stable and both are recovering.
Mr Khalid said air pockets created by fallen bricks and wet mud allowed oxygen to reach the trapped workers, enabling them to survive for several hours underground.
THEFT: Unknown suspects struck a pharmaceutical warehouse and a surgeon’s residence in two incidents, making off with medicines, medical supplies and jewellery worth Rs28.974 million.
According to police, thieves broke into the warehouse of Muhammad Sarwar Mirza, director of a private pharmaceutical company, in Pak Avenue Colony and stole medicines and medical supplies worth Rs23.764m.
In another incident, burglars targeted the residence of surgeon Dr Syed Ali Haider in the Sahiwal Teaching Hospital residential colony and escaped with jewellery worth Rs5.06m.
Farid Town and Shah Kot police have registered separate cases on the complaints of Muhammad Sarwar Mirza and Dr Syed Ali Haider. Investigations are under way, but no arrests have been made so far.
ASSAULT: Two women were allegedly subjected to sexual assault in separate incidents.
In Montgomery Town, Chak 90/9‑L, suspect ‘F’ lured ‘S’ to a city hotel under the pretext of marriage.
He administered her intoxicating juice and then subjected her to assault and later abandoned her unconscious at the gate of her house from where she was shifted to Sahiwal Teaching Hospital.
In another case at Chak 82/6‑R, Three‑Marla Scheme, ‘A’ was alone at home when suspect ‘W’ entered at gunpoint and assaulted her. Ghala Mandi and Fateh Sher police registered separate cases under Section 376 of Pakistan Penal Code.
Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2026
