TOBA TEK SINGH: Police arrested a highway department sub-engineer who resorted to firing to scare away a bevy of journalists covering a protest demonstration of shopkeepers and buildings` owners on GojraSamundri bypass road on Tuesday.

A team of the highway department demolished front portion of dozens of shops and buildings on the second day of their operation against land grabbers.

The affected people staged a protest demonstration and were raising slogans against the highways department officials when reporters reached there for coverage.

A cameraman of a TV channel was mal(ing footage when sub-engineer Amjad Munir stopped him but he continued his worl(.

The sub-engineer opened fire on the cameraman and reporters who had to run for cover in a building nearby.

Police arrested the subengineer and his two accomplices Waqas and Abbas and registered a case against them.

The members of the Gojra and Toba press clubs condemned the attack on journalists.

INJURED: A gang of land grabbers allegedly injured seven men at Chak 242-GB, NoorpurBasti near Gojra on Tuesday.

Police said Akram and his family had constructed their outhouse on state land at Izafi Abadi. Abdul Rehman and his 23 accomplices attempted to get possession of the land from Akram and shot at and injured him on resistance. His relatives came to his rescue and came under attack and suffered injuries.

The injured were taken to the Gojra THQ hospital where doctors referred Akram, Yasir and Zia to Faisalabad`s Allied Hospital due to their critical condition.

Police arrested some of the attackers and said they were conducting raids to track down others.

THEFT INCIDENTS: Thieves took away Rs75,000 in cash and other valuables from a travel agency ofñce located outside the district press club on Jhang Road on Monday night.

Agency owner Rana Ghazanfar Ali said this was the second theft incident in his shop within the last few months.

In another incident, thieves broke the rear wall of a mobile and electronics shop on Faisalabad Road and took away valuables worth more than Rs500,000.

Shop owner Kashif Rahim provided the CCTV footage of the incident to police.