NAWABSHAH: Train passenger dies

Published May 28, 2007

NAWABSHAH, May 27: An octogenarian passenger died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack on a train at Nawabshah railway station.

Mohammed Yar Kharal, 80, was travelling to Sargodha in Super Express when he suffered heart attack. He was taken to the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

The police informed his relatives who reached Nawabshah and took his body to Sargodha.

GASTROENTERITIS: Forty more cases of gastroenteritis were reported at the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital and other health facilities here on Saturday and Sunday.—Correspondent

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