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GUJRANWALA, April 7: A raiding team of the Health department on Sunday sealed four medical stores and fined six others for selling expired medicines at Wazirabad, Alipur Chattha and Ghakkhar town.
The raiding team headed by a drug inspector checked the medical stores and found them selling expired and defective medicines.
The team also raided on clinics of some quacks at Alipur Chattha and Ghakkhar town, but they escaped after locking their clinics.
KILLED: A highwayman was killed while others, including a rice dealer, sustained injuries on Sunday when a car driver in a bid to foil robbery rammed the vehicle into a roadside tree on the GT Road, Wazirabad.
Muhammad Baig was on his way to Mandi Bahauddin by his four-wheeler along with his driver Chand. Near Kot Khizri, Dhaunkel, three armed robbers riding on another car held them up and asked the driver to divert the vehicle to branch routes. The driver instead crashed the vehicle into a roadside tree. As a result, a robber died instantly while his two accomplices, the rice dealer and his crew sustained injuries. The injured robbers however took away the body of their accomplice with them. The rice dealer and his driver were admitted to the THQ Hospital, Wazirabad, in critical condition.
Police recovered a Kalashnikov and a mobile phone from the car and are investigating.
OUT OF ORDER: Over 100 telephones in Kamoke have been out of order for the last two months.
The PTCL general manager on a complaint inducted director development as inquiry officer to probe the laying of substandard wire.
The development wing had laid the wire a few months ago and connections were provided to subscribers some two months ago. But these telephone numbers went out of order just after their installation.
ELECTROCUTED: A youth on Sunday was electrocuted while catching a kite at Kamoke.
Ijaz Ahmad was trying to catch a stray kite on an electric pole when he received a shock. He died on the spot.
