Lakki admin launches action against illegal housing schemes.

LAKKI MARWAT -- The tehsil municipal administration launched an operation against illegal housing schemes in the Naurang town of Lakki Marwat district on Tuesday.

The operation was launched on the directives of deputy commissioner Abdul Hadi, who had received complaints that illegal housing schemes were eating up agricultural lands in the area.

Tehsil municipal officer Kiramatullah supervised the action, wherein the municipal workers with the help of machinery removed signboards of five illegal housing schemes and razed their main entrances.

Mr Kirmatullah told Dawn the owners had not fulfilled the required formalities before launching the housing projects. He said the municipal administration had issued repeated notices to the owners, but they turned a deaf ear to those and continued construction work on the sites. He asked the citizens to refrain from investing in such illegal housing societies.

FIRE: A fire broke out in a bakery located on the Mandan Road in Bannu on Tuesday, reducing the goods into ashes.

A Rescue 1122 official said the fire was apparently caused by an electricity short-circuit.

'A team of firefighters along with fire trucks and other gadgets reached the place and doused the flames with the help of policemen and residents,' he maintained.

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