ISLAMABAD, April 6: Almost two-third of the city’s traffic police force has fallen victim to dust raised at the underpasses and road building sites, the force’s chief disclosed here on Friday.

SSP Traffic Sultan Azam Taimuri told reporters that constant complaints of breathing problems from the traffic policemen on duty at these sites made him order a general medical check-up of the force which revealed that 60 per cent of them were suffering from “dust allergy”.

Some of them went on leave but others who wanted to follow them could not be relieved. They were provided masks to wear on duty, he said.

There is no end in sight for the traffic mess and clouds of dust in the city even after the underpasses at Kulsoom Plaza and China Chowk and widening of roads are completed as then work on flyovers at Faisal Chowk and Zero Point would start.