Peshawar: At least 14 children were injured when their school van overturned in Peshawar yesterday morning. Police said the school van, carrying about 20 children, was on its way when it turned turtle near a bridge on Ring Road in Peshawar, Dawn news reported. The injured children were shifted to local hospital. Later, they were discharged after being provided with medical treatment. Police arrested the van driver and started investigation.
Three killed in Karachi
KARACHI: Three people were killed in separate incidents in the city yesterday. Police official Baldia Irfanullah Marwat said that unidentified men slit the throat of a 35-year-old woman in Ittehad Colony of Baldia Town. The body was dumped in a nearby garbage bin. The victim was not yet identified. The body was shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities. In another incident, the body of an unidentified man was found from a house in Sector 5-C area of New Karachi. The man was strangulated to death, hanging from a ceiling fan. The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy. Separately, a person was found dead after consuming excessive drugs in Nazimabad No 7. The identity of victim was not yet ascertained. The body was shifted to morgue after police formalities.
EC issues code of conduct
LAHORE: The Election Commission Punjab has issued a code of conduct for the candidates participating in the coming local bodies elections in the province and has also imposed a restriction on the campaign budget, Geo News reported yesterday. The Election Commissioner of Punjab Mehboob Anwar told Geo News that the process of local bodies polls has kicked off throughout the province and that the EC will continue to receive nomination papers from December 22 to 27. The Election Commission has fixed the security fees from Rs2,000 to Rs20,000 for the candidates while the total budget for campaigning will not exceed Rs200,000. Display of arms and firing gun shots will not be allowed during the campaigning process, as per the code of conduct released by the ECP. Moreover, any candidate can face disqualification if found violating the code of conduct.
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