One dead, two injured in accident

LAHORE: A 30-year-old man died while two others received injuries in a road accident between two rickshaws near Bambe Kalan Raiwind Road on Monday.

Police handed over the body to the victim’s family after completing legal formalities and shifted the injured to hospital. The victim has been identified as Asif. Police said a passenger rickshaw had collided with a loader rickshaw. As a result, Asif died on the spot while two others received injuries.

fire: Valuables worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in different fire incidents in the provincial metropolis here on Monday.

A fire erupted at a shop in New Anarkali due to short-circuit and reduced valuables to ashes. Separately, a fire erupted in a house in Bukhari Market and reduced valuables to ashes. In another incident, a fire erupted in a house on Allama Iqbal Road near Kairan Hospital and gutted furniture and other valuables. Rescue 1122 fire service reached the scene and controlled the fire.

cheques: Children of 17 martyrs of Lahore police have been paid Rs 25 lac 75 thousand for education expenses.

CCPO distributed cheques among widows and children of the martyred. Shaheed head constable Shabbir Ahmed's widow handed over cheque of amount Rs 5 lac 36 thousand, widow of Shaheed sub-inspector Tajamal Hussain received cheque of Rs 4 lac 80 thousand. Similarly, widow of Shaheed Nazir Ahmed got an amount of Rs 3 lac 43 thousand for educational expenditure for their children. CCPO also handed over cheque of amount Rs 2 Lac 33 thousand to the widow of Shaheed constable Shoukat Ali. Likewise, widow of Shaheed Constable Ghulam Murtaza received amount of Rs 2 lac 12 thousand. The widow of Shaheed T / SI Dildar Ashraf got Rs 84 thousand 500, ASI Raftaj Hussain's widow received Rs 83 thousand, widow of constable Haq Nawaz was paid Rs 69 thousand, ASI Gilfam Shehzad Shaheed's widow handed over cheque of amount Rs 66 thousand, Constable Zafar Iqbal's widow 15 thousand, Constable Mohammad Asif's widow 13 thousand, widow of Constable Muhammad Imtiaz received amount of Rs 11 thousand while widow of Shaheed Sub-Inspector Manzoor Ahmed was paid Rs 7 thousand 875 for educational expenditure.

NEW RANKS: Assistant Superintendent Police (ASPs) Ayesha Butt and Tauheed Rehman promoted as SPs were decorated with new ranks at a ceremony held at Police Lines. CCPO put new ranks on their shoulders. DIG Operations and DIG Investigation directed the young police officers to continue their efforts to improve their professional capability. The participants offered their best wishes to DPO Lodhran Karar Hussain Shah and SP Jhelum Shazia Sarwar.

ACCIDENTS: The Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) responded to 883 Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) in all 36 districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours. In these RTCs 08 people died, whereas 984 were injured. Out of which, 563 seriously injured were shifted to different hospitals.