Fake beverages seized, two arrested

MANSEHRA: Food Safety and Halal Food Authority on Wednesday seized a large quantity of fake beverages being supplied across the district.

The food authority’s team, led by the deputy director Mohammad Arshad Abbasi, intercepted a mini-truck in the Garhi Habibullah area and seized a huge quantity of the fake beverages packed in the bottles of various multinational companies.

The team arrested the driver of the vehicles. Later, the team raided a warehouse in the Garhi Habibullah and seized fake beverages and arrested one Mohammad Osama from the place.

Meanwhile, three labourers washing a manhole of the sewerage lines in Shinkiari area fell unconscious because of the poisonous gas therein.

The labourers were clearing the choked manhole of the house of one Mohammad Sultan when they lost consciousness. The locals rushed them to a nearby hospital where they recovered following constant emergency treatment for a few hours.