TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of people blocked Toba-Shorkot Cantonment Road near Chuttiana railway station for traffic in protest against three house robberies late on Thursday night at Chak 302 GB, Bhattiwala, demanding immediate arrest of the robbers.
The protesters burnt used tyres and chanted slogans against the police for failing to curb crime in the area.
They told reporters that eight robbers forced their entry into the houses of three village residents -Abdullah Jabbar, Abdul Sattar and Adeel Ahmad -all related to each other, on Thursday night.
They said the robbers took the resident families hostage, subjected some of the members to torture and took away total Rs3 million cash and 26-tola gold ornaments, along with mobile phones and other valuables.
Later, police negotiated with the protesters and assured them that the robbers would be traced and arrested at the earliest. Following the police assurance, they endedthe protest.
A Toba police spokesperson says DPO Akhlakullah Tarar has formed two police teams to trace and arrest the robbers.
ROAD CRASHES: A 13-year-old boy died after falling from a moving car and being run over by two vehicles near Makhdoompur Interchange on M-4 Motorway on Friday.
Reports say the boy was sitting on the seat behind the driver, when suddenly the car’s door, that was left unlocked, opened and he fell onto the road.
Meanwhile, another car and trailer, coming behind the car, ran over the boy. As a result, he died instantly.
In another incident, occurring on M-3 Motorway near Jaranwala Interchange, a speeding car rammed into an out-of-order minitruck parked along the road.
As a result, a car occupant died and two others were injured.
The deceased was identified as Haseeb Ahmad (38) and the injured included his mother Faree da Begum (80) and car driver Muhammad Ahmad (45).
Body of the deceased and boththe protest.
A Toba police spokesperson says DPO Akhlakullah Tarar has formed two police teams to trace and arrest the robbers.
ROAD CRASHES: A 13-year-old boy died after falling from a moving car and being run over by two vehicles near Makhdoompur Interchange on M-4 Motorway on Friday.
Reports say the boy was sitting on the seat behind the driver, when suddenly the car’s door, that was left unlocked, opened and he fell onto the road.
Meanwhile, another car and trailer, coming behind the car, ran over the boy. As a result, he died instantly.
In another incident, occurring on M-3 Motorway near Jaranwala Interchange, a speeding car rammed into an out-of-order minitruck parked along the road.
As a result, a car occupant died and two others were injured.
The deceased was identified as Haseeb Ahmad (38) and the injured included his mother Faree da Begum (80) and car driver Muhammad Ahmad (45).
Body of the deceased and bothinjured persons were shifted to Jaranwala THQ Hospital.
Meanwhile three passengers were seriously wounded in a collision between a speeding bus and a truck near Adda Peerowal in Khanewal district.
The injured were shifted to Khanewal DHQ Hospital for treatment.
CHILD DIES: A three-year-old child died when a speeding truck ran over him near Khumananwala on Makkuana Bypass Road.
According to Rescue 1122, the child, Hamdan Qaiser (3) was crossing the road, when he was run over by a speeding truck and critically injured. He was shifted to Khurrianwala Rural Health Centre (RHC), where he succumbed to his injuries.
MAN INJURED: A man suffered serious burns when a fire broke out due to electric short circuit in the fuel tank of a petrol filling station near Abbott Pur Chowk on Bhakkar Road in Jhang on Friday.
Firefighters extinguished the fire and rescuers shifted the wounded man, Irfan (32), to Jhang DHQ Hospital.