TOBA TEK SINGH: Five people of a family suffered burn injuries when a gas explosion occurred in the kitchen of their house, triggering a fire in the house on Thursday in Zamzam Colony, a locality of Faisalabad`s city of Samundri.

The police said the blast was caused by the accumulation of gasin the kitchen.

The injured included Husnain, his father Bashir Ahmad, his wife Riffat Bibi, son Hassan and daughter Fatima. They were shifted to the Samundri Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.INJURED: Two robbery suspects were injured in an encounter with their accomplices in Jhang on Thursday.

The police said both gunmen, who were on physical remand with the Waryamwala police, were being taken to a Mochiwala police locality to arrest their accomplices.

Near Mochiwala, their accomplices attacked the police van, and as a result, both bandits, whose names were not shared with the media,wereseriouslywounded and shifted to the DHQ Hospital.

Police followed the attackers but failed to catch them.

Both suspects were involvedin more than a dozen robberies.

HONOUR KILLING: A Punjab Highway Patrol (PHP) police official and a woman were murdere d by the woman`s husband in Faisalabad on Thursday in the Tandlianwala Saddar police area of Chak 407-GB.

The police said Inzamamul Haq, posted at the PHP post at Khaiwala Bangla, had an affair with Tehreem Bibi.

Her husband, Muhammad Waseem, caught them on Thursday in his house, and he and Muhammad Afzaal (half brother of Tehreem) shot them dead.

Police shifted bodies to the Tandlianwala THQ hospitalfor an autopsy and conducted raids to arrest the suspects.

RAID: Deputy Commissioner Adnan Arshad and District Food Controller Shumaila Bano raided the private warehouse of a trader and recovered 3,500 wheat bags weighing 100kg each on Thursday.

The warehouse was sealed, and the hoarded wheat was seized.

IDENTIFIED: Out of the five unidentified deceased van passengers, who had been burnt alive on Wednesday in a head-on collision between a van and a truck in the Gojra area, two more deceased had been identified on Thursday,while two others were identified on Wednesday.

Both identified on Thursday are Salman Masih of Chak 224RB, Faisalabad, and Imran Ali of Samundri`s Chak 46-GB.

The police told reporters on Thursday that three of the burnt bodies could not be identified due to severe burning, and the said three bodies and their relatives would be sent to the Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory for their DNA test.

Six van passengers and the truck driver had died, and 19 van passengers had received burn injuries in the accident as a result of a fire that had occurred after the van`s LPG cylinder exploded.