TOBA TEK SINGH: A lawyer and his client, complainant in a kidnapping case, were injured in firing by four assailants in the lawyer chambers compound in front of the district accounts office in Faisalabad on Friday.

Lawyer ZA Mujahid and client Syed Muneeb Ahsan of Rachna Town were shif ted to the Allied hospital with serious injuries.

Kotwali police have registered a case against four attackers of Gujranwala identified as Asif, Akram, Bhutto and Ameer Hamza.

DIES OF ACID BURNS: A woman who suffered critical burns in an acid attack on June 22 by her former husband in Afzalabad Colony, Faisalabad, died on Friday at Allied hospital`s burn unit.

The section of 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code was added to the FIR by Nishatabad police on the complaint of Muhammad Wasim, the son of the deceased woman.

The FIR states Yasmeen Akhtar, 45, got a divorce through court some six months ago from Malik Muhammad Azam (also complainant`s father) and contracted a marriage with Muhammad Farooq.

She was home along with her daughter Ayesha Bibi, 16, and son Muhammad Husnain, 12, when the suspect forced his entry into the house and doused acid from a bottle on all three.Yasmeen was severely burnt, however, the other two sustained fewer burn wounds.

Doctors said the woman`s 70 per cent body had been burnt as a result, she finally succumbed to her burns on Friday.

The suspect is already in jail.

CASE: A case was registered against Rajana Fesco SubDivisional Officer (SDO) Waqar Azeem and Muhammad Tahir, contractor of sewerage water disposal works, for their alleged negligence which caused the electrocution of a woman and her minor son on Thursday night at Rajana near fruit and vegetable market.

Complainant Iftikhar Ahmad said in his FIR that he repeatedly informed the SDO and the contractor to remove fallen pole, disposal works station electric transformer and live election wires near his house, but they did not give attention which resulted in the electrocuting of his wife Nida Bibi and his eight year old son HaramAli.

PROTEST: Scores of relatives and f riends of a slain man blocked traffic on Gojra-Jhang Road by placing the body in front of Gojra THQ hospital with the demand to immediately arrest the assailants.

Gojra police said Usama Ilyas Gujjar of Chak 362 JB was returning home from his outhouse when hisrival Adnan Fazal Gujjar and his two accomplices riding a motorcycle opened fire on him over old enmity.

DIES: One person died and another was injured critically when their motorcycle crashed into aparked bus on Friday night on Jandwali Basti Road.

The deceased was identified as Sajjad Ali, while injured Muhammad Asghar was shifted to the Chak Jhumra THQ Hospital.