Two lovers were slaughtered by the father and brother of the absconding girl in Karial Kallan area of Noshera Virkan police precincts on Saturday.
Reportedly, 20-year-old Shamim, daughter of Karial Kallan’s landlord Bashir, developed friendship with Idrees and both eloped about six months ago to marry without permission of their parents. Recently, Bashir got a tip-off about the absconding couple’s residence and took his son Naveed along to look for them in Muridke.
They broke into the house late last night and slaughtered Idrees and forcibly took Shamim to their village, where they killed her as well. Muridke and Noshera Virkan police have lodged separate cases and started search for arresting the murderers.
CYLINDER BLAST: Also, two engineers were killed and 10 labourers were injured when the roof of a factory collapsed after a gas cylinder explosion in Small Industries Estate No 2 near Khiali Shahpur. Per details, the cylinder explosion caused the roof of a plastic factory to cave in and all of the workers, including two chemical engineers who were brothers, got buried in the debris.
Rescue work was started by the workers of the adjacent factory, who were later joined by Rescue 1122 staff. However, Engineer Tanvir and Engineer Zaheer could survive the accident.
