Muggers injure man in Gujranwala

Author: Malik Wasil

GUJRANWALA: A man was shot and injured for resisting an attepmted robbery on Kashmir Road. Ashiq and his wife were coming home after attending a wedding when two robbers stopped them and looted gold ornaments and Rs 15,000 cash.

When Ashiq tried to resist a robber fired at his leg. Separately, three workers were burned when a furnace at a factory exploded. Workers were busy working in the factory at Maafi Wala when a cracker in the scrap exploded, injuring Iqbal, Dilawar and Sajjad. They were rushed to DHQ Hospital by Rescue 1122 officials. Meanwhile, a factory worker was allegedly tortured by a police constable.

Shahbaz told reporters at DHQ Hospital that Sabzi Mandi Police Constable Nasir held him in a theft case without registration of an FIR and tortured him brutally. Separately, a woman committed suicide in Kamoke. Iram, 30, wed Iqbal eight years ago. After sometime differences surfaced between the couple. On Monday, Iram swallowed poisonous pills.

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