TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 3: Four people, including a former union council naib nazim, were killed and several others injured in road accidents in the district during Eid days.

Reports said Rajana UC former naib nazim Raja Hasan Akhtar Kiani was on his way to his farmhouse from his village Chak 289-GB to bring milk on his motorcycle when a speeding car hit his two-wheeler on Rajana-Pirmahal Road, killing him on the spot.

In the second incident, Mauza Sher Singhwala lumberdar Abdul Ghaffar was killed and his niece Ghazala suffered injuries when their motorbike was hit by a bus on Kamalia-Chichawatni Road. An unidentified passer-by was killed and nine people suffered injuries as a result of a head-on collision between a car and a bus at railway crossing of Gojra Bypass Road. The injured, including car driver Sabir and his son Adnan of Chak 163-GB, were admitted to Gojra THQ hospital in a critical condition.

In another incident, local journalist Mian Jabbar Tahir suffered injuries and his nephew Shakoor Ashraf, 16, was killed on Friday when their motorcycle was hit by a speeding car near Nagra canal bridge on Rajana-Toba Road. Jabbar was admitted to the DHQ hospital.

RESISTANCE: Dacoits shot at and injured a farmer on resistance on Eid night at Chak 55-GB, Tukra near Kamalia. Reports said four outlaws forced their entry into the house of Amer Rashid Dogar. Amer attempted to overpower one of the dacoits on which his accomplices opened fire. Amer was referred to Faisalabad Allied hospital owing to his critical condition.

cheques: Punjab Revenue Minister Haji Muhammad Ishaq distributed cheques worth Rs50,000 each among 32 industrial workers of the district as dowry grant on behalf of the labour department.

The workers belonged to Chenab spinning mills of Toba, Kamalia sugar mills, Chaudhry sugar mills and HM Shafi textile mills of Gojra.

On this occasion district labour officer Ijaz Ahmad Chadhar said Rs300,000 compensation would be given to widows or heirs to industrial workers on their on duty death.