SUKKUR, March 2: The entire stock of cotton of a cotton factory in Ghotki was reduced to ashes on Sunday. Firefighters from Deharki were able to control the fire after hectic efforts which lasted three hours.

ROOF DAMAGED: Unidentified armed outlaws attacked the house of a man, Thario Sawand, with rocket launchers as a result of which his roof was destroyed in the Baggan Khan village, near Kandhkot, on Sunday. The outlaws had been demanding Rs100,000 from him since a month, and when he bluntly refused to do so, the former attacked his house and threatened him of dire consequences.