LAHORE – Two workers were killed in a gas cylinder blast at a godown in Badami Bagh police limits, rescue workers said on Friday.
The reason for the blast is unclear, according to police. The deceased were identified as Abdul Rasheed, 45, and Usman, 25. The storehouse is said to be owned by the father of Usman, a resident of Misri Shah.
Sources in police said that the workers were busy with their work when the blast took place. They said Rasheed died on the spot while Usman on way to hospital.
The police have removed the bodies to morgue for autopsy. No case has been registered till filling of this report.
Mohmand man dead: Unidentified motorcyclists gunned down a shopkeeper at the Lunda Bazaar in the precincts of Nolakha police on Friday.  The killers fled away after shooting down Muhammad Salman, said to be the resident Mohmand Agency in the northwest. The deceased was running a shop at the Lunda Bazaar to sell used pullovers and jerseys since long, investigators said.
Brother of the deceased told the police that Salman had developed old enmity in his native town and the killing could be the handiwork of his opponents. Salman was coming out of the mosque after offering Fajar prayer in the Nolakha area when unidentified men targeted him with bullets. The man died on the spot. The body was removed to the morgue for autopsy. The police are investigating.
Last Friday, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday expressed concern over the rise in violent incidents across the country. In a statement, the Commission said: “HRCP notes with great alarm the rise in grisly incidents of violence all over Pakistan. Beginning with the abduction in Peshawar and cold-blooded murder of 21 Levies personnel, the killing of seven aid workers in Swabi, the murder of polio vaccinators in Karachi and Peshawar, the FC operation in Awaran, and now young doctors beating their seniors in Gujranwala, hardly a week goes by when violence of ever more disturbing nature does not make the headlines.”
HRCP stressed the need for “soul searching” over the incidents and said that compassionate human beings were the basis of every developed society.