GUNJRANWALA, June 6: A raiding team of the health department, the district administration and the police on Sunday sealed about 30 medical stores on charges of selling veterinary and expired medicines. The stores were sealed as part of an on-going drive against quackery and sale of spurious medicines in the Ghakkhar Town, Dhaunkel and Wazirabad.

The team, comprising executive district officer (health) Dr Zafar Iqbal Niaz, deputy district officer Dr Altaf Husain, drug inspector Rana Muhammad Akram and judicial magistrate Dr Safdar Husain also arrested some quacks. Police have registered the cases.

GAS EXPLOSION: A gas cylinder explosion claimed the life of a woman in Saroki, Wazirabad, here on Sunday. Reports said Munnaza Bibi was preparing breakfast in her kitchen when the cylinder exploded. She sustained critical burns and died at the DHQ hospital.

SHOT DEAD: A police constable was shot dead on Sunday by an accused in a Hudood case here in Tetley village. A police party, comprising ASI Rana Mohammad and constable Amin went to the village to arrest him on the court orders. On seeing the police, he opened fire, killing Amin on the spot.

DEMO: Students held a demonstration at the Government College for Boys in Satellite Town here on Sunday to protest the ban on union activities in colleges, and marched on the Sialkot and GT roads later on.

Speaking on the occasion, Islami Jamiat Talaba divisional president Qaiser Sharif and other leaders warned the government against changes in syllabi "at the behest of the US and Zionists". They demanded that the Wana operation should be ended forthwith.

STRANGLED: A woman was allegedly strangled by her husband after a quarrel with her mother-in-law over a domestic issue in Qila Deedar Singh on Sunday. Ishrat Bibi was a mother of four. Qila Deedar Singh police have registered a case against the accused, Nawaz, and his mother.