TOBA TEK SINGH: A man has been arrested after the dead body of a woman was found in a hotel’s room located on the Susan Road in Madina Town area of Faisalabad on Saturday.
Police claimed that the body of Ainee (35) was lying on a bed in a room of the hotel.
The hotel staff claimed that the woman arrived in the hotel on Friday night with one Rehman Azmat of Rehmat Villas, Faisalabad, who left the hotel at 9am on Saturday and did not return. They claimed when the staff checked the room at 12pm, they found the body.
Police had shifted the body to the Allied Hospital foran autopsy.
A police spokesperson claimed that suspect Rehman had been arrested and investigations were ongoing.
ACCIDENT: A couple died after a speeding bus hit their motorcycle near River Ravi Mari Pattan on the FaisalabadOkara Road in Tandlianwala tehsil on Saturday.
They were identified as Shams Abbas (47) and his wife Asia Bibi (44).
Meanwhile, two workers of a factory died after their motorcycle was hit by a trailer on the Faisalabad-Chak Jhumra Road.
According to the police, they were on their way to the factory they worked in located inFiedmc when a speeding trailer ran them over and killed them.
They were identified as Akash (20) and Asim (19) of Chak 157 RB.
Separately, a biker identified as Akbar Ali (70) died and Hassan Abbas and Abdul Rehman were wounded after a collision between two motorcycles on Toba Road in Gojra tehsil.
They had been shifted to the Gojra THQ Hospital for treatment.
ENCOUNTER: An alleged robber was killed in an encounter with an Ahmadpur Sial CCD team in Jhang district on Friday night.
Police claimed that a CCDteam led by Inspector Rashid Islam Korhiana had created a temporary checkpost where three suspects riding a motorcycle were stopped. However, police claimed that they opened fire on the policemen, which was also returned. When the firing ended, police claimed to have found one suspect dead by the firing of his accomplices, who had escaped. He was identified as Akhtar Baloch and was wanted by the police in 18 robbery cases.
WHEAT CULTIVATION: The wheat cultivation campaign has been ongoing in the Faisalabad division with special attention being paid to cultivation through drillsforbetterutilisa-tion of resources, reduction in production costs and increase in per acre production.
Agriculture Director Khalid Mahmood said that the super seeder machines provided by the department on subsidy had been playing an important role in chopping the stubble after harvesting paddy and mixing it with the soil and in timely cultivation of wheat.
He said that this method improves the fertility of the land and helps in the growth of the crop. He urged farmers to calibrate the machine correctly before using the super seeder and ensure that it was being used as perthe directions ofthe department. Correspondent