SWABI, April 19: Two labourers and a tractor-trolley driver were killed when rocks falling from a local mountain hit them while they were breaking and loading boulders in the trolley.

The incident occurred in Tarakai Mountain from where people of the area usually bring boulders for construction purposes. Eyewitnesses said that the labourers were busy loading the trolley when big stones started falling from top of the mountain and hitting them. They said the labourers came under massive rocks, resulting in their death. The witnesses said that local people had recovered bodies of a labourer Nisar Khan of Bandu Oboo village and driver Alam Sher of Yar Hussain area, while efforts were underway to retrieve body of another labourer.

CAREER FAIR: Speakers at the inaugural ceremony of ‘industrial open house and career fair’ at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology have said that both academia and industry should evolve a joint strategy to overcome the increasing energy crisis in the country.

The two-day fair was inaugurated by Pakistan State Oil chairman Sohail Wajahat here on Thursday. Waqar Murtaza Butt, member of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Dr Zafar Iqbal Qadir, chairman of National Disaster Management Authority, and other officials of academia and industry were also present on the occasion.

The organisers said that 65 national and multinational companies were participating in the fair. The purpose of the fair was to provide a meeting place to the students and their prospective employers.

During the ‘industrial open house’ the students presented their final year projects in the form of posters and other demonstrations. The interested employers got an opportunity to evaluate projects of the students and explore the prospects of their employment.

Jehangir Bashar, rector of GIK Institute, said that development of indigenous technology was must for progress. He said that this was possible if experts from academia and industry put their heads together to promote applied research in different fields of engineering and technology.