Three dead, 11 injured during Eid Miladun Nabi processions across Punjab

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AN Eid Milad procession passes through the Tilak Incline area of Hyderabad on Saturday.—PPI
AN Eid Milad procession passes through the Tilak Incline area of Hyderabad on Saturday.—PPI

TOBA TEK SINGH: Three participants of Eid Miladun Nabi processions died and 11 were reportedly injured in different parts of the province.

In one incident, two participants of a procession died and another sustained critical injuries when they fell from a tractor trolley and it ran over them near T&T Colony on Satiana Road in Faisalabad.

The deceased were identified as Zeeshan (26) and Nazar Mustafa (15) both residents of Chak 239 RB Baralan and injured as Azeem (22), who was shifted to the Faisalabad DHQ hospital.

In Shorkot tehsil of Jhang, a student of Madrassa Faizan Madina Waryamwala died and seven others were seriously injured when a mini truck turned over when its driver lost control while trying to save a donkey cart near Teen Puli on Multan Road.

Rescue 1122 officials said the students were returning to the seminary after participating in a Milad procession in Shorkot. The deceased was identified as Hafiz Malik Imran (19) and the wounded as Chand Sabir (14), Fahad Irfan (18), Bilal (18), Hassan Imran (10), his brother Meesam Imran (14), Usman Nawaz (17) and Ahsan Khalid (10).

They were shifted to the Shorkot THQ hospital, where doctors referred three of them to the Multan Nishtar Hospital.

In another incident in Jhang, Muhammad Mustafa (11) was seriously wounded during a Milad procession when a truck ran over him near Chund Bhawana on Sargodha Road. He was shifted to the Jhang DHQ hospital where his leg had to be amputated.

Meanwhile, two persons were seriously injured after a scuffle broke out between two groups during a Milad function in Chak 643 GB, Sattar Nagar, in Jaranwala tehsil.

Men from one group reportedly attacked houses of the other group, resulting in Muhammad Aslam (50) and Ali Sher (17) getting seriously injured. They were shifted to the Jaranwala THQ hospital, where the condition of both of them was stated to be very critical.

In another incident, Jhang Garh Maharaja police booked 150 men and women, including 42 nominated, on the complaint of ASI Ghulam Shabbir for allegedly stopping a Milad procession in Mouza Tibba Gamli.

The FIR claimed that the suspect took the on duty police officials and participants of the procession hostage, snatched thousands of rupees from the participants and took away iron shields, helmets, batons and keys of official vehicles from the police officials.

The police claimed to have taken some of the accused persons into custody.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2026

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