TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 25: Crops on hundreds of acres were inundated following three breaches in canals at different places of the district on Sunday.

Irrigation department staff and area farmers were struggling to plug two breaches till the filing of this report late on Sunday night.

A 85 feet wide breach occurred in Jhang branch canal between Chak No S 385 JB (Salahrian) and Chak No 378 JB (Fattowal) at about 2 am.

The cause of the breach could not be known.

The representatives of area farmers alleged that the irrigation department staff did not properly look after the canal banks.

Another breach in the Moong sub canal near Chak No 252 GB (Lasoori Wala) in the evening inundated crops of nearby villages.

The third breach occurred in Pirmahal area on Gogera branch sub canal near Chak No 670/11 GB. This 20 feet breach was however plugged in the afternoon.

FLOUR: Food Department’s Faisalabad deputy director Rana Saeed Ahmad Khan raided various points in the district on Sunday where flour was being sold at subsidized rates.

He examined the quality of flour and sale registers of the points. District food controller informed him that 46,013 bags of 20 kg would be sold at 69 points of the district during Ramazan at the rate of Rs149 per bag. Flour mills in the district have supplied around 30,000 bags to the points.

BUTCHER BOOKED: City police registered on Sunday a case against a butcher on public complaints.

The slaughter house superintendent had recovered 35 kilograms of unhygienic and stinking beef from the shop of Faryad Hussain.

However, police have yet to arrest Faryad.