Minor boy electrocuted

Published December 30, 2008

FAISALABAD, Dec 29: A minor boy was electrocuted while trying to catch a kite in Kaleem Shaheed Park Road on Monday.

Jaffer, son of Shaukat Ali of Juttawala Chowk, Azamabad, was trying to catch a kite entangled in electricity wires when he received a shock and died on the spot.

STRANGLED: Some unidentified persons strangled a woman in Chak 604-GB here on Monday.

Bhalak police found the body of Naziran Bibi lying in a deserted place.

Reasons for her murder are yet to be ascertained.

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