NAWABSHAH, Sept 26: About 30,000 maunds of cotton were reduced to ashes when the Sakhi Jam Dattar ginning factory on the Nawabshah-Sixty Miles road caught a fire the other day.
Dr Dayaram, the nephew of the factory owner, said that the cotton stock valued at Rs20 million. The fire brigade were sluggish as they took eight hours to extinguish the fire. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained.
SALARIES: Employees of the Public Health Engineering Department in the district have not been paid their salaries for the last three months. Moosa Lund, Karim Abro and Sajjad Saeed told newsmen at the press club on Friday that hundreds of employees of Nawabshah, Sakrand and Daulatpur talukas were passing miserable lives due to non-payment of salaries. They warned that if they were not paid their salaries, they would start a protest campaign.
KILLED: A boy, Sajid Malik, 12, was run over and killed by a truck on the Kutchehry road on Friday. The A-section police arrested truck driver Riaz Ahmed and impounded the vehicle.
SUICIDE: A woman, Nabila, 30, daughter of Shoaib Hamidi, the former member of the Awami League, committed suicide by taking pesticides due to some domestic problems. In another incident, Hamrio Bheel, 35, committed suicide due to unemployment by hanging himself from a tree in Charji village, Doulatpur taluka.
