SIALKOT: Police during a crackdown on Monday arrested more than 350 kite flyers, sellers and buyers from Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur tehsils.

Police also recovered more than 3,000 kites and string. District’s 28 police stations have registered cases. The suspects have been sent behind the bars.

Police launched the crackdown on kite flyers in the wake of the death of 23-year-old youth Zubair who died after falling from the rooftop of his house while flying kites at Gojra on Saturday.

PERISH ON ROAD: Suraya Bibi, 48, and her son, Shahzaib, 16, were killed in a road accident here on Monday near Glotiyaan on Daska-Gujranwala Road.

Reports said the Bhaanokey-based woman along with her son was on her way to Gujranwala when a tractor-trolley hit the motorbike, killing both on the spot.

Daska Saddar police have registered a case against the driver who managed his escape.

Police have shifted the bodies to Daska Civil Hospital for autopsy.

Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2014