BAHAWALPUR: Three persons, including two schoolchildren, suffered serious burns in an alleged acid attack outside a school in Machiwal in Vehari district on Tuesday.
According to a police spokesperson, the students, identified as Wahid and Waqas, residents of Chak 531/EB, along with their van driver Muhammad Tasawar were standing outside their school to leave for their homes. He claimed that a man suddenly threw acid on them and all three suffered burns and were rushed to the Vehari DHQ Hospital.
On receiving information of the incident, Vehari DPO Tasawar Iqbal along with a heavy contingent of police rushed to the scene. The DPO also met the children’s parents and assured them to arrest the culprit.
The spokesperson told Dawn that the attacker had been identified as Shakil. He said the affected driver claimed that Shakil had an old enmity with him and he targeted him, however, the children who were standing beside him, were also hit in the attack.
The Machiwal police had registered a case against the suspect on the complaint of the van driver and the DPO had deputed police teams for his immediate arrest.
The victims were undergoing treatment at the hospital.
BOOKED: A case has been registered against 35 persons, including a woman, by the Inayati police in Khairpur Tamewali for allegedly resisting and assaulting a joint raiding team of the Crime Control Department (CCD) and police during a raid to arrest a suspect on Monday.
According to the FIR, complainant CCD SI Muhammad Akmal claimed that Muhammad Waseem, Shaheen, Shamshad Mai along with 25 unidentified persons attacked the police team during a raid to arrest a suspect.
He further claimed that the armed suspects attacked the police officials, kept them in illegal confinement, snatched their mobile phones and helped the wanted suspect to escape on a motorcycle.
The booked suspects, however, alleged that the police team raided several homes in Chah Bagh Ali in mauza Goth Ali to arrest one Muhammad Husnain alias Husnaini and violated the sanctity of ‘chadar and char-diwari’.
They further claimed the cops humiliated women and ransacked their houses besides taking away their belongings.A police spokesperson told Dawn that no arrest had been made so far in the case.
Published in Dawn, November 4th, 2026
