TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of rickshaw drivers staged a protest demonstration at the District Council Chowk in Faisalabad on Thursday against alleged overcharging and black-marketing of LPG cylinders.
They were carrying banners demanding the deputy commissioner to start a crackdown against LPG dealers who were selling gas to them at twice the government’s fixed price.
They said that due to the extraordinary hike in the petrol price, they were forced to use LPG cylinders but dealers were looting them and they were unable to earn a livelihood.
ELECTROCUTED: A young contractor was electrocuted to death while working in a house in Chak 324 JB Paira of Toba Tek Singh on Thursday.
According to Rescue 1122, Zain Ali (25) of Chak 384 JB was supervising work at a house when his hand touched a live electric wire and he received a shock and died instantly.
Meanwhile, a labourer died after a portion of the roof of an under construction house fell on him in Chak 17 Gagh in Shorkot tehsil. He was shifted to the Shorkot THQ Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. He was identified as Muhammad Saleem (52).
In another incident, a worker was seriously burnt by chemicals while working in a textile dyeing factory at the Punjab Small Industries Estate in Faisalabad on Thursday.
He was shifted to the burns unit of the Allied Hospital and was identified as Muhammad Sufian (22).
ACCIDENT: A minor child died after a speeding car ran him over near the Millat Road Chowk in Faisalabad.
Reports said the one-year-old child was a son of a gypsy woman, who was begging along the road along with the child when a car hit him. The child, identified as Arbaz, was critically injured and shifted to the Allied Hospital where he died.
ENCOUNTER: An alleged robber was killed on Wednesday night during an encounter with the Roshanwala police.
Police claimed that three suspects riding a motorcycle were stopped by policemen near the Bypass Road but they opened fire on the cops, which was also returned.
Police claimed that when the firing stopped, they found the body of one suspect, who was killed by the firing of his accomplices.
He was identified as Ramzan Lohar and was wanted in 39 robberies and police encounters.
Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2026
