TOBA TEK SINGH: The civic agencies failed to kill the rabid dog who injured 14 more children in various parts of Gojra on Wednesday.

A day earlier it bit 13 children who had to be taken to the THQ hospital for first aid.

The stray dog attacked more children in Gojra and nearby Chak 372-JB, Bujjianwali, injuring 14 of them. The children were taken to the THQ hospital which remained short of vital anti-rabies vaccine and the doctors referred the children to Faisalabad’s Allied Hospital.

Gojra Municipal Committee chief officer Zahid Fareed Tarar claimed that a team continued search of the dog but failed to find it. He said a campaign had been launched in the city to kill stray dogs.

STRIKE: The employees of courts in Gojra observed strike and took out a rally on Wednesday to protest alleged thrashing of a colleague by a policeman.

The protesters who also staged a sit-in at Gojra courts complex told reporters that Muhammad Talha had parked his motorcycle outside his house at Green Park from where a police team led by sub-inspector Khalid Jamil took away his vehicle. They said Talha rang up 15 emergency police and visited the city police station to register theft complaint and he found his two-wheeler there.

SI Khalid Jamil thrashed him after an exchange of harsh words, they said.

DPO’s spokesperson Attaullah claimed that the motorbike was found abandoned in a street so policemen took it to the police station. He said the officials handed over the vehicle to Talha after due process, denying manhandling of the clerk.

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2018