SARGODHA: A man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife by slitting her throat following an argument at their home in Bhalwal on Wednesday.
According to police, Irshad attacked his wife Aasia Bibi -a mother of three -with a knife in the Manzoor Hayat Colony area. According to police sources, the suspect’s anger did not subside after slitting her throat, he repeatedly stabbed her body. The victim bled to death at the scene, while the suspect initially escaped by scaling the walls of the house, police claimed.
Local police appre-hended the suspect and claimed to have recovered the murder weapon.
The victim’s body was shifted to the THQ Hospital for postmortem.
PFA: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) claims to have disposed off 400kg of substandard meat intercepted in a rickshaw near Chak 107 NB on Sillanwali Road.
The PFA said its food safety team seized the unwholesome meat before it could be supplied. Two suspects traveling in the rickshaw were arrested and handed over to the police.
SCUFFLE: A retired government official diedafter falling into an open sewerage line during a scuffle on Wednesday.
As per details, retired government official Muhammad Ashraf died after falling into a sewer drain during a fight with an alleged eve-teaser Waseem in the Madina BazaarofSargodha.
The man allegedly harassed his daughter when she passed through the bazaar and when he asked Ashraf to stop, he started to scuffle with him and pushed him. As a result, he fell into the sewerage line and died instantly and the suspect fled from the spot.-Correspondent