Police fail to find clue to robbers

LAHORE
Ichhra and North Cantt police have failed to find any clue to robbers who killed two persons and injured two others on offering resistance in two different incidents on Monday.
Inspector Naseer Ahmad Incharge Investigation Ichhra police and Inspector Muhammad Yunis Incharge Investigation North Cantt said they had yet to trace out the accused persons. We have been working on the cases and would trace them soon, they claimed. Police teams have also been working on the modus operandi of the robbers to ascertain whether it was the same gang or two different gangs had committed robberies.
On Monday evening, two unknown motorcyclists had shot dead a man named Faheem and injured a labourer Naeem when they tried to overpower the robbers fleeing after snatching a purse from two women in a street near Sadar Roundabout.
In a similar incident, robbers intercepted one Muhammad Arshad, 50, and his son Muhammad Usman, 25, when they were returning after withdrawing money from a bank and demanded valuables. The victims offered resistance over which robbers shot at and injured them. The victim Arshad died in the hospital.
DIES: A 60-year-old man admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital few days before died Tuesday.
ASI Asif, Chowki Icharge Ganga Ram Hospital said the victim had come to hospital on April 07. He fell down on the hospital premises and received injuries. On which, police admitted him to the hospital where he remained under-treatment and died Tuesday. Police have removed the body to morgue.
BODY FOUND: Body of a 35-year-old unidentified woman with marks of torture on her body was found from metro track in the Shafiqabad police limits Tuesday.
A passerby spotted the body in the Niazi Chowk Metro Station and informed the police. Police reached the incident place, removed the body to morgue, collected forensic evidence from the crime scene and registered the statements of the eyewitnesses. Police said it seemed that she was tortured before murder.

ACCIDENTS: At least 650 road traffic accidents were reported in Rescue 1122’s Provincial Monitoring Cell in all 36 districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours; in which three lives were lost and 537 seriously injured were shifted to different hospitals of relevant district. However, some 251 minor injured were provided first aid by Rescue 1122 on the spot.
Prize distribution: The 16th annual prize distribution ceremony of Government College of Home Economics was held here Tuesday in which 171 prizes were distributed among students. Punjab Minister for Population Welfare Begum Zakia Shah Nawaz was the chief guest on the occasion while Principal Prof Dr Samia Kalsoom, faculty members and students were also present.
The prizes were distributed among the students for various activities, including high attendance percentage, Inter-class competitions of Naat and Qirat, speech, cooking, painting, flower arrangement, dress designing, Kalam-e-Iqbal, calligraphy and clay-painting.
Besides, the students who won prizes in Chief Minister’s Youth Programme, Tourism Development of Pakistan and Fountain House Calligraphy Competition were also awarded certificates.