GUJRANWALA: Three die of taking poisonous liquor
GUJRANWALA, July 3: Three youths died after taking 'poisonous liquor' while another hospitalized in Noushera Virkan on Saturday.
According to reports reaching here, four friends, all Christians, brought a bottle of liquor from one Imran Masih and consumed it on the occasion of paddy re-plantation.
Three of them - Faisal Masih, Sofyan Masih and Talib Masih - died shortly after while Boota Masih was brought to the DHQ Hospital here in critical condition.
MURDER: A former councilor and his associate were gunned down by a union council nazim and his men over the dispute of construction of a street in Satellite Town here on Saturday evening.
It is stated that deceased Mehmood Amjad Rathor, the brother Kasera Bazaar Anjuman-i-Tajran president Masood Amjad Rathor and Ijaz Amjad Rathor forbade accused Khwaja Afsar Majeed, Nazim of the Satellite Town UC, from constructing his street as he had already got approval from MNA Qazi Hameedullah. But the accused became infuriated and opened indiscriminate fire as a result of which Amjad and his associate Arshad Gunga died on the spot.