Three people died while a two-month old was injured in different road accidents on Thursday. Edhi officials said Ghulam Mustafa, 32 and his mother Nargis bibi, 65, died in a car accident in EME society, while his two-month old child survived the crash. The white Mehran the family was traveling in collided with a pole after one of its tyres burst. The injured child was shifted to Jinnah Hospital. In another incident, Soyen Masih, 65, resident of Modern Colony Kot Lakhpat was going to collect his pension when he was run over by a speeding car on Peko Road. Soyen Masih’s family refused to lodge any complaint with the police. POVERTY DRIVES MAN TO SUICIDE: An under debt purse maker committed suicide due to poverty in the Rang Mahal Police precincts on Thursday. Police officials said Zahid Butt, 30, resident of Wacho Wali Bazar, committed suicide by hanging himself from a fan. They said Butt had borrowed money for his brother’s cancer treatment.
FIRE BURNS DOWN SHOE FACTORY: Valuables worth millions were incinerated after a fire erupted in a shoe factory in the Badami Bagh Police precincts on Thursday. Fire fighters said a shoemaking factory erupted in flames due to short circuiting. They said the fire quickly engulfed the machinery and raw-materials in flames. They said a fire truck immediately responded to the call and extinguished the flames. The owner of the factory claimed the loss to be in millions of rupees. MAN DIES IN BRAWL: A cafeteria owner died during a scuffle with customers in a factory in the Kahna Police precincts on Thursday.
Sub-Inspector Arshad said Haji Afzal, 50, resident of Shadab Colony Chung was running a cafeteria in a factory on Ferozpur Road. He said Afzal got into a fight with three employees of the factory: Safdar, Khadim and Saleem. During the fight Afzal fainted and died on the spot. Arshad said an FIR was lodged against the aforesaid three men on the complaint of Azhar’s son under Section 302PPC. He said the three accused had managed to flee from the scene. The body of the deceased was sent to the morgue for autopsy.
MAN INJURED IN MOSQUE CAVE-IN DIES: A laborer, who got injured four days ago when an under-construction mosque at Chubergi caved in, died in hospital on Thursday. Police officials said Muhammad Abid, 35, who got injured on September 30 after a under-construction mosque near Chubergi caved in was shifted to Ganga Ram where he succumbed to his injuries. They said Yasim, the deceased’s father lodged an FIR against Muhammad Abdul, the contractor of the construction site, under Section 322PPC. The body was shifted to morgue for autopsy.
