GUJRANWALA, Jan 17: Three employees of a poultry farm died of suffocation in Kot Noora, Ghakkhar Town, here on Friday.

Mumtaz Ahmad of Sangla Hill, Mushtaq of Okara and Abbas of Multan were employed at the poultry farm of Mohammad Amir. They went to sleep after burning a coal stove and died due to gas accumulating in the room.

Their bodies have been removed to the DHQ hospital.

JOINT OPERATION: Senior police officers of Gujranwala, Sialkot, Narowal, Faisalabad and Sheikhupura districts have decided to conduct a joint operation against criminals.

The decision was taken at a joint meeting of senior police officers held here on Friday with DIG Malik Mohammad Iqbal in the chair.

It was decided that police check posts would be set up on highways and main roads to arrest the criminals. The joint operation would be kept secret and all resources would be utilized to eliminate the crime.

The local chamber of commerce and industry had threatened a few days ago that traders and industrialists of Gujranwala would come on the road if the incidents of highway robbery were not checked on the GT Road near Muridke.

SHOT DEAD: A woman was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Kashmir Colony on Friday.

Shaista Bibi, 32, was asleep when the assailants entered the house and shot her dead. She was a mother of four.

However, the police have taken her husband, Abdul Qayyum, into custody for investigation.

LIFE IMPRISONMENT: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Thursday awarded life term with a fine of Rs200,000 to Arif for killing his wife.

The court acquitted three co-accused — Mohammad Khalid, Said Ahmad and Nasir Mahmood — giving them the benefit of the doubt.

According to the prosecution, the convict had killed his wife, Rukhsana Bibi, over a domestic issue in Gilwala Ahmad Nagar on June 20, 2002.

DISMISSED: A senior clerk of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Gujranwala, Mohammad Aleem, was dismissed from service by the board chairman for remaining absent from duty on Friday.