TOBA TEK SINGH: A minor boy and his sister died and five others, including their mother, a sister and a brother, were injured when a truck hit the motorcyclerickshaw they were sitting in near Chak 25 Adda in Faisalabad on Sunday.

Rescue 1122 reported that a motorcycle-rickshaw driver was changing tyre after parking it on TandlianwalaSatiana Road when a truck hit the three-wheeler. Asher Rashid, 5, and his sister Maria Rashid, 4, died on the spot while their brother Ali Hasnain, 6, sister Zohra Rahid, 3, mother Yasmeen Rashid, 24, besides Anwar Alam, 18, and driver Ghulam Rasool, 35, were injured. The injured were shifted to Faisalabad`s Allied Hospital.

KILLED: A fourth-class student of a Kamalia government school has been killed after rape by the watchman.

Watchman A bdul Ghaffar told investigators that he raped the minor girl and threw her body in the river Ravi after killing her.

ROBBERY: Armed men plundered cash and valuables worth Rs4 million from a doctor`s house at Pirmahal on Saturday night.

Dr Ghulam Mustafa, a resident of Sindhillianwali, informed the Arrouti police that four dacoits entered his house adjacent to his clinic and held up the family. They took away Rs1.7 million, gold ornaments, mobile phone sets and other valuables.

A medical association office-bearers demanded that Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz take notice of the incident and ensure arrest of the suspects at the earliest. They said it was a case of sheer negligence of police as a constable reached the place after the doctor called 15 emergency and the armed men fled under the cover of aerial firing.