SIALKOT, June 19: Three employees of the Health department have been suspended from service by the Executive District Officer (Health) on the charge of corruption.

Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, the EDO said the action against the Health employees had been taken on the orders of the Sialkot District Nazim.

Shaukat Ali, Bashir Ahmad and Ghulam Mustafa were alleged to have embezzled hundreds of thousands of rupees after selling illegally the equipments and machinery of the Health department.

The EDO said that a strict departmental inquiry had also been started against the suspended employees.

GOAT KILLED: One goat was killed as a result of the continued firing by Indian troops on villages in Sialkot working boundary’s Chhumb, Joriyan, Bajwat, Charwa, Jammu-Saamba-Akhnoor, Zafarwal and Shakargarh-Narowal sectors.

The firing also damaged several houses and disrupted the sowing of paddy crops.

Sources said the Pakistani security forces responded effectively, causing heavy defensive losses to the enemy.

ASI DIES: The injured ASI, Malik Muhammad Nazir of Sialkot, succumbed to his injuries at Mayo Hospital, Lahore, late on Wednesday night.

He received serious injuries when five armed men opened fire on him over a land dispute in Roraki Awan village, Sabzpeer in Pasrur tehsil about four days ago.

The deceased ASI was laid to rest in his native graveyard in the presence of scores of people.