Boy, woman commit suicide

LAHORE

A teenage boy and a woman committed suicide in different parts of the provincial metropolis on Tuesday.

Police said the boy was identified as Zaman, 12, a resident of Jalalpura, Raiwind. His father asked him to take cattle to the nearby fields. He ignored his father's orders, on which, his father admonished him. The boy became distressed and hanged himself from a tree and committed suicide.Police have removed the body to morgue and registered the statements of the eye-witnesses. Police said that they were investigating the matter.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-old woman committed suicide by taking poisonous pills at Kahna. Police said the woman was depressed due to her financial condition. On the day of the incident, she had a dispute with her husband on some issue. She locked herself in a room and took poisonous pills. She was removed to hospital but she could not survive.

Police handed over the body to her family after completing legal formalities. 

ELECTROCUTED: A 22-year-old container helper was electrocuted at Sundar on Tuesday.

Police said victim Muhammad Tariq, a resident of Rahimyar Khan, was sleeping on a container parked at a place where electricity wires were handing overhead. When he got up, he touched high voltage live power wires. He fell unconscious and was removed to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

Police have removed the body to morgue and registered the statements of the eye-witnesses. Police are investigating the matter.

Rescue 1122: In order to win international accreditation with International Search & Rescue Advisory Group (INSRAG), Emergency Services Academy, Rescue 1122, Director General Amir Hamza has initiated a large-scale programme for capacity-building of the instructors at the National Centre of Excellence. 

He said that the purpose of the capacity-building programme was to improve instructional skills of instructors regarding disaster management, fire, rescue, medical, and other emergencies.

He said recently 14 new instructors from different provinces, four from Punjab, three from GB, seven from KP, had joined the academy. He said that Emergency Services Academy was in process of international accreditation with international community which required the instructors to be equipped with the latest rescue techniques.

Guest speakers from Pakistan Armed Forces, law enforcement and security agencies, Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory, Punjab Police, district administration and other stakeholders have been involved, he added.

While inaugurating the programme, Pakistan Navy’s Station Commander Lahore Commodore SM Shahzad (SI) Military addressed the cadets and instructors and asked them to improve their instructional skills to meet international standards.

 The academy's  registrar, Dr Muhammad Farhan Khalid, briefed the director general that in the current Advance Training for Instructors Programme, some 45 instructors from different districts of Punjab, GB, KP and Emergency Services Academy had been involved for capacity-building. He said that some officers had also been involved in order to enhance their supervision, monitoring and commanding skills.

The director general maintained that keeping in view his experience of disaster management in Pak Army, he would also have training sessions to improve the overall understanding of the participants.

Accidents: At least 537 road accidents were reported to the Provincial Monitoring Cell of Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, from all 36 districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours. 

Nine people were killed and 468 badly injured in the accidents. The injured were shifted to hospitals. However, some 161 victims, who sustained minor injuries, were provided with first aid by the emergency medical teams.