Thursday, August 18, 2011

Robbers’ gang arrested

The police claimed to have busted a five-member gang of robbers and recovered goods worth Rs600,000 stolen from warehouses of Utility Stores Corporation (USC), Kabirwala.

Acting on a tip-off, the police party intercepted three trucks (C-165, ZP-3853 and C- 3278). On searching them, the police recovered huge quantity of cooking oil and vegetable ghee stolen from the USC warehouses in Kabirwala and arrested five robbers identified as Asif Dawood, Mohammad Adil, Jamil Ahmed, Shamraiz Hussain and Tahir Masood.

Police sources said the accused were trying to smuggle the goods to Peshawar. A case was registered against the accused while the confiscated goods handed over to the USC authorities.

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Flood in Ravi, Sutlej: 17 villages near Mian Channu inundated

Discharge at Head Islam in River Sutlej near Vehari is expected to rise to 71,000 cusec by Thursday evening. Several villages and fields in the areas along the river are expected to be inundated. Water level is likely to rise further in the coming days.

The flood in River Ravi has so far deluged 17 villages including Dalwan, Chishtian, Hashim Chakreeb, Jungle Seet and Bhopri in Mian Channu. Some of the villagers have alleged that not openning the gates of Head Sidhnai (in Kabirwala) could have saved them by causing water level in the river to fall but this was not done.

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