TOBA TEK SINGH: The Pirmahal police registered a honey trap case against a woman, her husband and their two accomplices on Tuesday.

Complainant Sumair Hassan of Multan claimed in his FIR that he was a mobile phones trader and agreed to purchase a phone from one Sadia Bibi of Pirmahal on a phone call for Rs60,000. He claimed that when he reached Pirmahal to purchase the phone, she met him at Allah Hu Chowk and took him to her home in C Plots locality.

He claimed that when he was sitting and talking to her in her house, her husband Muhammad Imran came down from the second floor along with his two accomplices. He claimed the men started beating him, snatched Rs7,000 and transferred another Rs120,000 through his ATM card. They kept him locked in a room and dropped him at a deserted place after midnight on Darkhana Road, he claimed.

Police booked the accused and raids were being conducted to arrest them.

ACCIDENT: Two persons were killed and as many others were injured when a trailer fell off the motorway M-4 near Bahu Interchange in Shorkot tehsil on Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 said the trailer, laden with utensils, was on its way from Faisalabad to Karachi when the driver reportedly fell asleep, causing the vehicle to lose control and skid off the motorway. The injured were shifted to a hospital by a motorway police ambulance.

The bodies of the two deceased, whose identities could not immediately be ascertained, were transported to the Shorkot THQ Hospital by Rescue 1122. The deceased were believed to be around 30 and 27 years old.

DROWNS: A minor boy drowned on Tuesday in a canal near Meli Burji village on Safdar Abad Road in Sangla Hill tehsil of Nankana Sahib district.

According to Rescue 1122, Muneeb Ali (4) was playing outside his house near the canal bank when he slipped and drowned. Rescuers had fished out his body.

STUDENT RECOVERED: The Samundri City police on Tuesday claimed to have recovered an abducted seventh grade student.

Complainant Shamshad Bibi of New Samundri claimed in her FIR that her daughter Aroosh Fatima (14) went to school from where accused Arman and his three accomplices kidnapped her by a van on Sept 2.

Police claimed to locate the kidnappers and recovered the victim during a raid. Police also claimed to have arrested Arman, while his accomplices managed to escape and raids were being conducted to arrest them.

PLANTATION DRIVE: In collaboration with the District Education Authority and the Faisalabad Green Lions Club, 7,000 saplings were planted in government schools of Faisalabad city on Tuesday.

Commissioner Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh and DC Muhammad Noman Siddique also participated in the campaign.

The commissioner appreciated the initiative and said that in the next few days, they were launching “My Plant My Class Fellow”. Under this programme, students of classes VIII, IX and X would plant saplings together and students would also have duties for the growth, care and nurturing of the saplings, he said.

He said the “Adopt a Park, Leave a Mark” campaign had also been launched under which civil society would adopt a park and improve its facilities.

Industrialists Mian Muhammad Idrees, Farooq Yousuf Sheikh and Zahid Mahmood Butt were also present.

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2026