MIRPURKHAS, Jan 30: The district and sessions court of Mirpurkhas set free 36 bonded labourers, including women and children, after recording their statements here on Monday.

Ramzan Khaskheli and Dhanji Kolhi had complained to the court in separate applications that 36 bonded labourers were detained at the farmland of Ameen Mangrio and Umer Mari who forced them to work without wages or share in the harvest.

The court directed the area police to recover the bonded labourers from illegal confinement. Police raided the farms on Sunday, recovered 36 labourers and produced them in court on Monday.

Modern ambulance service

The state-of-the-art ambulance equipped with life support system shifted its patient from here to a Karachi hospital from civil hospital Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital to Karachi on Monday.

The Rs8 million ambulance with two trained doctors, two nurses and a driver had been provided to the cardiac ward of the civil hospital by the People's Primary Health Initiative (PPHI), said the PPHI project director Dr Riaz Ahmed Memon.

In-charge of the cardiac ward, Dr Deedar Hussain Gujjo, said that the patient, Luqman, had arrived here from Karachi to meet his relatives. On Jan 28 he suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the cardiac ward where he was provided first aid.

On Monday, his relatives insisted they wanted to shift him to the National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases in Karachi, he said.

He said a group of philanthropists had promised to bear fuel expenses of the ambulance.

Accident

One Ameer Ali Qambrani was killed and Deedar Ali and Rajab were injured when a van collided head on with a truck near Kachhelo Farm on Monday.