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TOBA TEK SINGH, March 26: Some 28 passengers sustained minor injuries when a train had a scratch with a sugar cane laden trolley at a the Toba-Shorkot Cantonment level-crossing on Sunday night.
Information gleaned by this correspondent said the tractor-trolley’s driver dislocated the back portion of the vehicle on the track as he failed to cross it through near Chak 312-GB, some 26km from here, between Chuttiana and Shorkot Cantonment railway stations.
Coming from Sargodha, the Karachi-bound express train appeared and five of its carriages had a scratch with the trolley. Sitting closer to windows, some 28 people received bruises. They were taken to nearby hospitals for medical aid.
Some of the railways officials of Khanewal, Multan and Faisalabad visited the site after a couple of hours.
KILLED: Relatives killed two women for suspicion in the district on Tuesday.
Abdul Sattar of Shorkot Cantonment took his younger sister to Gojra on the pretext of visiting relatives and killed her with a chopper near Sem Nullah of Chak No 361 JB.
He was later arrested.
Altaf Hussain of Chak No 667/8 GB, Kamalia, doubted that the wife of his brother Muhammad had illicit relations with a youth of the village.
He killed his sister-in-law with a chopper and courted arrest.
RELEASE ORDERED: The Punjab home department ordered on Tuesday release of six activists of religious parties who were arrested two months ago under MPO.
Aneesur Rahman Butt, Muhammad Siddiq, Muhammad Saleem (Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan), Rana Mazhar Abbas, Shabbir Hussain and Nawaz Hussain (Tehrik-i-Jaferia Pakistan) were kept in separate jails in the district.
