OKARA: Two adjacent garment stores were burnt to ashes at City Gol Chowk and Rail Bazaar late on Tuesday.

The shops, owned by Sheikh Shakir Tahir, had stocks of ready-to-wear garments.

Rescue 1122 dispatched 10 vehicles to fight the fire in the mid of the city. Rescue teams with the cooperation of citizens controlled the fire in an eight-hour-long operation.

ATTACK: A man and his six other armed suspects injured Shafqat and his guest and took away two weapons.

The first information report states Shafqat had litigation with Haider Shah and in revenge, Haider along with Iqbal, Salem, Hakim and Maqsood, alias Soodi, with two other unidentified suspects on Tuesday night entered his house in the village Kauray Jauray and injured Shafique and guest Siddique and fled with their two weapons.

The Hujra Shah Muqeem police registered a case against seven suspects on Shafique’s report.

RAPE: A man allegedly raped a 13-year-old boy on Tuesday evening in the Sakhi Abdul locality.

The police said the minor did not return home in the evening. The family later found him in the suburban fields. He said the suspect had raped him and escaped.

The Chuchak police have registered a case.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2022