BAHAWALPUR, April 27 A fire broke out in a spinning mills near Lal Sohanra, about 30 kilometres away from here, on Hasilpur Road on Monday, causing a loss worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.

The Rescue-1122 service extinguished the fire after five hours. The mills management claimed that hundreds of cotton bales were burnt in the fire. The exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained.

BODY The body of a 40-year-old man who went missing four days ago was retrieved from a well here on Monday.

Farid Ahmed, a resident of a kachi abadi near Islami Colony, went missing and his family could not trace his whereabouts. On Monday, they were informed about the body on which Rescue-1122 rescuers retrieved it. The Baghdad police registered a murder case.

SHOT DEAD Unidentified men shot a student dead in an attempt to snatch his cell phone in One-Unit Colony on Sunday night.

According to police, Shaukat was returning after saying his night (Isha) prayers at the colony`s mosque when he was intercepted by the assailants. They tried to snatch his cell phone but he resisted on which they shot him dead and fled. The police were investigating.