SIALKOT/FAISALABAD
A local farmer drowned in Bambaanwala-Ravi-Badian Canal in Daska while two droned in Faisalabad canals separately on Wednesday.
Muhammad Aslam, 54, was bathing in the canal. Rescue 1122 Sialkot divers fished out his body and handed it over to the aggrieved family for burial. About ten days ago, the Sialkot administration had imposed a ban on bathing in rivers, canals, streams and all the water channels under section 144 PPC in Sialkot district. Under this order, the picnicking by the people was also banned along the banks of the rivers and canals from dusk to dawn, not allowing the people to celebrate picnic from evening to the morning. However.
It was amazing that there was no implementation of the ban. According to the Rescuers, eleven people have yet drowned in separate incidents during the last two weeks while bathing in local rivers and canals in Sialkot district’s all the four Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur tehsils. They also saved the people in such number from drowning in different canals and rivers in Sialkot district.
On Wednesday, hundreds of the people thronged Head Marala-Sialkot to enjoy the light rainy and cloudy weather while bathing and picnicking.
When contacted, DOC Malik Abid Hussain Awan pledged to ensure early implementation to save the lives of the people.
In Faisalabad, Waqar, 24, of 591-GB in the precincts of police station Lundianwala, was swimming in the canal. His body could not be found. In another incident, Tahir, 25, of Hafizabad, was spending holidays at his uncle’s house in Faisalabad. He went out for swimming in the canal and drowned. His body was also not found till the filling of this report.