BAHAWALPUR: A school van driver allegedly raped a 10th class female student in Burewala, Vehari district, on Friday.

According to police, the 15-year-old victim used to go with the driver daily from her residence in Chak 183/EB in the suburbs of Gaggo Mandi in Vehari district.

Police claimed that on Friday morning, the driver picked the victim from her house and instead of dropping her at the school, he took her to Burewala. On the way, the driver also picked up an unidentified accomplice from Waris Shaheed Chowk.

Both suspects allegedly took the victim to a house in Burewala city, where the driver allegedly raped the minor student. Later, the suspect dropped her outside her school.

Police said that when she returned home, the victim narrated the ordeal to her father, who called the police emergency helpline 15. The Gaggo Mandi police registered an FIR on his complaint and the victim was referred to a hospital for medical examination.

SHO Hassan Aftab said that he had formed teams to arrest the suspects and claimed to have conducted raids at several of his hideouts.

ACCIDENTS: Two persons were killed and as many suffered serious injuries in two separate traffic accidents in Ahmadpur East tehsil on Saturday.

In one incident, Rescue 1122 said a beggar was pushing another disabled beggar on a wheelchair on the national highway in Uch Sharif when a truck hit them from behind when they attempted to cross the road. As a result, Lal (45), a resident of Kundi Seetpur in Muzaffargarh district, was killed on the spot, while the injured man was identified as Haji Ahmed (60). Rescuers reached the scene and shifted the body and the injured to the Ahmadpur East THQ Hospital. The Uch Sharif police had arrested the truck driver.

In the second accident, motorcyclist Syed Naeem Shah (35) was killed while his pillion Syed Shairshah (25) suffered serious injuries near Chak 47/DNB on Shahiwala Road in Ahmadpur East tehsil.

Rescuers said that the bikers ran into a plough attached to the tractor while overtaking the vehicle. The dead body and the injured were shifted to Ahmadpur East THQ Hospital while the tractor driver fled the scene.

The Shahiwala police had registered a case against the unidentified driver.

Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2026