NAWABSHAH: Canal breach damages crops
NAWABSHAH, Dec 7: The Sujawal minor canal developed a 30-foot wide breach near Shadi Khan Rind village on Tuesday. As a result, wheat and sugarcane crops standing over 100 acres of land were damaged.
No irrigation official had reached the area till the filing of this report. The executive engineer of Dad division of the irrigation department was not available for comments.
Telephone operator at his office Shamshad said that the executive engineer was out of station. He added that the office had received information about the breach and the Daroghas concerned had been told about it.
PROTEST: Hundreds of students of the Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology blocked the Nawabshah-Sakrand road here on Tuesday to protest against local transporters.
The students blocked the road near Naya Naka by parking university buses and also burnt tyres and smashed the windscreen of some vehicles. They alleged that a bus driver with some armed persons had attacked a university bus and injured its driver and two students.
Later, Taluka Police Officer Rana Jangsher reached the place of the protest and took the protesting students to his office for negotiation with transporters which were continuing till the filing of this report.