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Inflation, unorganised distribution of free flour blamed for stampede in P
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Heart-wrenching scenes were witnessed at the mortuary of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital on Friday as the bodies of those who had been killed in the stampede in a SITE factory were lying over stretchers and their relatives were mourning their death.
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Free flour 'rush' shifts to Pakistan govt offices
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
A huge rush of people and lack of facilities at free flour point has led to the stampede in the region leading to the fainting of some women, who allegedly fainted at these offices due to suffocation during the last few days.
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Pakistan: 3 injured as protesters scuffle with police over flour distribut
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
A scuffle began between police and the protestors when the protestors pelted stones at the police, three were injured. Police resorted to lathi-charged and teargas shells were lobbed to disperse the people. The local residents said that thousands of people from Mera and adjoining areas took
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Flour crisis hits people in Pakistan hard during Ramzan
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Scores of people have suffered injuries and millions have been coming back to their homes without a fistful of wheat flour.
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Pakistan: Four, including police personnel, injured after clashes erupt ov
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Three protesters and a police constable were injured in the clash. Police vehicles were also damaged as protesters pelted stones at them.
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Pakistan: 14 people, including 2 police personnel injured, in free flour s
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The Rescue team of Multan immediately alerted the motorbike staff on the spot and sent more ambulances and motorbikes from the nearby station and found 12 people and two police personnel injured on the spot.
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Law and order in Pakistan's Chiniot deteriorates as police officials remai
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Late on Tuesday, six to seven dacoits picketed the canal bridge at Pangu Mor Colony on the Jhang-Chiniot Road and held captive passersby after plundering their valuables.
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Pakistan: Woman, man die, several others get injured in stampedes at flour
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
As per The News International, the first stampede took place in Sahiwal when a large number of people showed up to get free flour with women also standing in long queues. As the time passed on, the crowd became impatient, which caused a stampede with everyone trying to get flour bag.
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Pakistan: Several injured in stampedes as free flour distribution goes awr
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
In Punjab province's Muzaffargarh, at least seven people were injured on Tuesday after a flour distribution centre collapsed due to the huge rush of people.
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Pakistan govt forcing people to beg for flour, says Jamaat-i-Islami
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Darband tehsil chapter has demanded that flour be made available to people all over the nation at subsidised prices and accused the government of humiliating and demeaning the poor, especially women, at flour distribution points.
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Two die at free flour points in Pakistan's Punjab province
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In two separate areas of Punjab province, a man and woman were killed at free flour points in Muzaffargarh and Khairpur Tamewali.
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Pakistan economic crisis: Stampede at flour bags distribution
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A man was killed in Charsadda, and several others were injured in Swabi and Kohat. Another man in Bannu died after the boundary wall of a flour mill collapsed ahead of flour distribution. In the Hasilpur Tehsil of southern Punjab, at least five women were injured in a stampede at a free flou
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