Tag: Injured

Nine dead, more than 30 injured in road accident

MIRPURKHAS - Nine passengers were killed, while 30 others including women and children were seriously injured in road accident when a speedy passenger bus fell in deep ditch at Babo stop on late night of Sunday. Police said that passenger bus was going to Diplo from Mithi and suddenly it fell in deep ditch.
Amanullah, Haji Hussain Rind, Suleman, Bhaghchand, Kewal, Ashok, Punhooo and two unknown persons died on the spot, while more then 30 passengers including women and children

14 injured in Hub hand grenade attack

HUB - At least 14 people were injured in a hand grenade attack on a mosque in Hub town on Sunday night. According to police sources, unidentified men hurled a hand grenade at the ablution centre a local mosque in the town, which injured 14 people, including worshippers and some passersby.
The injured were identified as Muhammad Hasan, Saeed Ahmed, Dilip Kumar, Saaedur Rehman, Constable Muhammad Umar, Qadir Bakhsh, Imran, Shabomal, Pawan, Bahadar Ali, Shair Ali, Noor Muhammad,

7 injured in Quetta car bombing

QUETTA - Seven people, including four policemen were injured when a car bomb exploded in Quetta on Saturday. However, the police officer who was the prime target of the attack remained unhurt. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) claimed the responsibility for the attack.
The bomb, planted in a Suzuki car, exploded as the official vehicle of Superintendent of Police Investigation Shabaan Bangash passed through Nechari Road injuring four police guards and three civilians. However, Bangash

Injured Nadal aims for quick recovery

MELBOURNE - Rafael Nadal is looking to put behind him the despair of missing a cherished 'Rafa Slam' and recover from his Australian Open injury setback to again rule men's tennis. The world number one was in tears late in his injury-ruined quarter-final Wednesday with Spanish friend David Ferrer as he realised his quest for a fourth straight non-calendar year Grand Slam victory was over.
Although he refused to dwell on the injury out of respect for Ferrer's unexpectedly easy

Hamza visits Mayo Hospital to inquire after blast injured

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Hamza Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday visited the Mayo Hospital and inquired after injured of the Urdu Bazaar Chowk blast. Hamza went to the Amritsar, Delhi and Gujranwala wards and asked about treatment facilities being provided to the injured.
He expressed satisfaction over arrangements made by the hospital administration for treatment of the injured and directed doctors and administrative officers

Three injured as union activists and guards clash at UoE

LAHORE - Three University of Education (UoE) students were injured on Thursday when union activists and security guards clashed with each other. UoE faculty and students condemned the student union activists for attacking the varsity campus while security guards said that they had already informed the varsity administration that student activists will attack the campus.
Guards said that a number of protesters were not varsity students and protesting for their vested interests

Hospitals receive 10 dead bodies and 75 injured

LAHORE - Mayo Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Tuesday received around 75 injured and 10 dead bodies including four policemen, one woman, one minor and five others after the Tuesday's suicide bombing.
Rescue 1122, Edhi Foundation, Pakistan Red Crescent Society and other welfare organisation ambulances transported the bodies and injured. The injured included seven policemen, children and passers-by. Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent Zahid Pervaiz said 22 injured were

Flintoff injured during TV shoot

Cricketer Freddie Flintoff was rushed to hospital after fracturing his rib while filming his new extreme sports series. The former Test ace was left in agony after he was injured while training for a wrestling match with his former England teammate Darren Gough. His physiotherapist ordered him to go to hospital, where an X-ray revealed he had a broken rib.
The 33 year old was subsequently forced to pull out of the challenge on 'Freddie Flintoff versus The World', his new

India select injured quartet in WC squad

MUMBAI - India will gamble on the fitness of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final 15-member squad on Monday for next month's World Cup.
Regular openers Sehwag and Gambhir and paceman Kumar missed the current five-match one-day international series against South Africa through injury while Tendulkar hurt his hamstring in Saturday's second match and returned home. "Injuries are part of

Murdered, injured, raped… Sindhi women continue to suffer

KARACHI - There has been no let-up in gender-based violence in Sindh, reveals a six-month report compiled by the Aurat Foundation (AF) in collaboration with Irish NGO Trocaire.
PML-F MPA Marvi Rashdi, AF Karachi Resident Director Mahnaz Rahman, AF representatives Shireen Aijaz and Fareeda Tahir, and others formally launched the report titled 'Policy and Data Monitor on Violence against Women' based on the period between July and December 2010, at the Karachi Press Club on

Aurat Foundation-Trocaire report on gender-based violence – Murdered, injured and raped…...

KARACHI - There has been no let-up in gender-based violence in Sindh, reveals a six-month report compiled by the Aurat Foundation (AF) in collaboration with Irish NGO Trocaire.
PML-F MPA Marvi Rashdi, AF Karachi Resident Director Mahnaz Rahman, AF representatives Shireen Aijaz and Fareeda Tahir, and others formally launched the report titled 'Policy and Data Monitor on Violence against Women' based on the period between July and December 2010, at the Karachi Press Club on

One killed, three injured in a monetary dispute

LAHORE - A man died while three others including two women were injured in a monetary dispute in Bagbanpura police precincts on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Haider Ali (26), a resident of the Krol Bazaar Baghbanpura. Police investigators told Pakistan Today that no FIR had been lodged against the accused and no on has been arrested till now.
Haider's brother Ghulam Mustafa had a monetary issue with his old business partner, Shakeel Butt. Shakeel with some armed

5 people injured in bomb explosion

CHARSADDA - Five people including two policemen were injured when a planted bomb at a compact discs (CD) shop went off in Charsadda bazaar on Friday.
Reportedly, the shopkeeper called the police when he saw a planted bomb at CD distributors market. The police reached the spot and tried to defuse the bomb but the explosive material went off injuring five people including two policemen.
The injured people were out of danger, sources in the hospital said.

Four injured in car CNG cylinder blast

LAHORE - As many as four people received minor injures as the CNG-gas cylinder exploded in the precincts of the Munawah police precincts here on Wednesday.
According to Edhi officials, four men including Abbas, Umar Hayyat and Shehzad while the fourth remained unidentified, sustained injuries when a CNG cylinder exploded with a bang. The CNG cylinder exploded when the cylinder being filled at local CNG gas station.
An Edhi ambulance reached at the spot instantly and

Five students, FC man injured by Turbat bomb

QUETTA - At least five students along with personnel of Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) got injured in a remote controlled bomb blast in Turbat, a town in Kechh district on Tuesday.
FC spokesman who requested not to be named said that an FC school bus carrying more than three dozen students was passing in front of Atta Shahad Degree College when remote controlled device planted in the roadside exploded as the vehicle passed by.
As a result, five students identified as Kamil,

Routine crime – 4 dead several injured, in murders and accidents

LAHORE - Four people died while several were injured in separate incidents in the metropolis on Sunday.
COOKED: A man was gunned down over some old rivalry in Northern Cantonment police precincts on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Muhammad Saleem (32), a resident of Harripur. According to the police, Saleem had an old rivalry with a group in his native city Haripur and he had shifted to Lahore to get rid of the rivalry and worked as a cook in a house in Defence Phase 8.

7 injured in shootout between two groups

ISLAMABAD - Seven people sustained bullet injuries on Saturday in a shootout between two groups in village Karlot in the Bhara Kau Police Station precincts, on the outskirts of the federal capital.
Members of two groups led by Sher Asif and Raja Nasir opened fire on each other, injuring seven people. The dispute arose out of a refusal to a marriage proposal. The injured were taken to PIMS and Federal Government Services Hospital.
Source in PIMS said that two of the injured