Five of a family burnt in cylinder blast.

SAHIWAL -- Five members of a family were burnt in an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinder blast at Chak 57/12-L on Saturday.

According to reports, the LPG cylinder at Muhammad Afzal's house had a leak and it had a blast as soon as some family member lit a match in the kitchen. Five family members who received burns were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital, Chichawatni. Two of them who were in a critical condition had been shifted to the Nishtar Hospital, Multan. The injured included Afzal, Tayyaba (12), Anwar, Idrees and Sonia Bibi.

ROs TRAINING: The regional office of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gave one-day election training to 20 returning officers (ROs) appointed for 20 provincial assembly seats in Sahiwal division.

Two of them critical at Nishtar Hospital Multan

The ECP officials imparted election training on the ROs on the campus of Quaid-i-Azam Academy for Educational Development.

Among the total constituencies, eight, seven and five are located in districts of Okara, Sahiwal, and Pakpattan, respectively.

Earlier, ECP appointed 20 bureaucrats as ROs and 40 employees of the education department...

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