12-year-old missing girl found dead

LAHORE : A body of 12-year-old girl was found in a canal in the Barki police area on Tuesday.

A passerby spotted the body floating in BRB Canal near Karbath Village and informed police. A police official reached the spot and fished it out. He also collected forensic evidences from the crime scene and recorded the statements of the eye-witnesses.

The body was identified as that of Urooj, 12, daughter of Ghulam Rasool. She had been missing since April 14. Police have registered an FIR. train project claims life: Another youth died in an accident at the site of Orange Line Metro Train track in the Naulakha area on Tuesday.

Victim Asim, 25, was going on a bike near Lahore Railway Station when a speeding dumper employed at Orange Line Metro Train project hit and killed him. Police have removed the body to morgue and collected forensic evidences from the crime scene.

It is not the first death due to accidents at Orange Line Metro Train project sites. Seven people working on the project were burnt alive when their makeshift living space had caught a fire at Manawan. At least seven others had died at Manawan in 2016 when the wall of an under-construction warehouse had collapsed on them. Two workers were electrocuted at Nawab Town when their crane had touched high tension electric wires. Body found: A 40-year-old man was found dead in the Kot Lakhpat police jurisdiction on Tuesday.

Passersby spotted the body near Shanghai Underpass at Kot Lakhpat and informed police.The man, yet to be identified, was an addict, police claimed and said he might have died of an overdose of drugs. The body has been removed to morgue.

POs from Dubai: Seven proclaimed (POs) offenders in different heinous crimes arrested by Lahore police with the help of Interpol were brought to Pakistan from Duabi on Tuesday.

DSP Usman Haider escorted them from Duabi to Lahore.

They were identified as Fayyaz Anwar, wanted in FIR No 12/2016 registered on January 4, 2016 U/S 302/324/148/149/337-D-F3 PPC, 7 ATA at Hanjarwal police station; Saif Ullah, S/o Ghulam Mustafa, PO in FIR No 12/2016 dated 04/01/2016 U/S 302/324/148/149/337-D-F3 PPC, 7 ATA at Hanjarwal police station; M Majid Butt, S/o Sadiq Butt, PO in FIR No 755/2006 dated 14/08/2006 U/S 302/34 PPC, 7 ATA, Kot Lakhpat police station; Tariq Javeed, S/o Muhammad Yaqoob, PO in FIR No 749/2015 dated 24/07/2015 U/S 324/34/148/149/337-F3-F5 PPC, Harbanspurs police station; Hafiz Nouman Hafeez, S/o Abdul Hafeez, PO in FIR No 1951/16 dated 26/11/2016 U/S 408 PPC, Baghbanpura police station; Amanat Ali, S/o Walayat Muhammad, PO in FIR No 280/10 dated 28/10/10 U/S 302/109/148/149, PPC, Sadr Jalalpur Jattan district, Gujrat and Ahmed Hussain Khan, S/o Ghulam Hussan, PO in FIR NO 832/13 dated 18/12/2013 U/S 302/34.