Factory owner burnt alive

LAHORE: The owner of a shuttering factory succumbed to burns hours after he got burns due to a cylinder blast at his own factory in the Harbanspura police limits on Thursday. Police handed over the body to the family after legal formalities. The victim was identified as Malik Khalid Awan. Valuables worth millions of rupees were burn to ashes in the incident. Meanwhile valuables worth millions of rupees were burn to ashes in three other incidents including in Pak Colony, shoe factory Masti Gate and Defence Phase-I.