Gogera canal breach plugged.

TOBA TEK SINGH -- It took more than 24 hours to plug the breach occurred in Gogera branch canal near Bhagat Canal Rest House on Friday.

Irrigation and Rescue 1122 employees and farmers used moderm machinery for the purpose and succeeded to fill the breach on Saturday evening.

As a result of breach, crops on hundreds of acres in Chak 359-GB and other adjacent villages were inundated.

Initially the breach was 10-foot wide, which later widened to 40 feet.

DACOITS: Dacoits injured a rickshaw driver at Faisalabad on Canal Road in the wee hours of Saturday.

Rescue 1122 and police said Abdul Rashid was intercepted by robbers near Gattwala. When he did not stop, they opened indiscriminate fire. Rashid sustained critical injuries and was shifted to the Allied Hospital.

In another incident, a robber shot at and injured a security guard in Gulfishan Colony on central graveyard road of Ghulam Muhammadabad.

Police said Dolphin squad personnel were chasing a suspected robber. When guard Habibullah tried to overpower him, he fired at him injuring him seriously.

In the meantime, the robber fell on the road and the police overpowered him in injured condition.

Both the guard and the robber were shifted to the Allied Hospital.

The robber was identified as Amer Haroon and according to police he was involved in a...