SAHIWAL: The body of a 14-year-old seminary student was found at the central graveyard of Chichawatni on Saturday.

City police said the boy was molested and strangled to death.

The deceased, of Ghafoor Town, had learnt the Holy Quran by heart from seminary Azizul Uloom. He used to visit the seminary daily for repeating the lessons. When he did not return home on Friday evening, his mother contacted the seminary only to learn that he was absent from the class on Friday.

His family and neighbours launched a search to find him. On Saturday, they learned that his body was lying in the graveyard.

City police said the initial postmortem showed that the boy was molested and later strangle to death.

Sources in the district police officer said Chichawati police had arrested two suspects.

BREACH: Local villagers plugged a 50-foot breach in the embankment of Sohagpara canal near village 55/D, Pakpattan, on Friday evening.

Villagers said as irrigation officials failed to respond their calls, they filled the gap on their own.

The breach occurred on Thursday afternoon and by evening it had inundated thousands of acres of cotton, vegetables, fodder, and rice in village 54-D, 55-D and 70-D.

Raheemullah, of 55-D, said that when no official turned up to help them, the villagers with tractors and sand bags started filling the embankment and it took them a day to plug the breach. They demanded a probe into official negligence into the issue.

Shafiq, a senior irrigation official, did not return call to comment on the situation.

Published in Dawn, May 31st, 2015

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