BAHAWALPUR: Nine members of a family, including three women and four children, were rushed to DHQ hospital Lodhran after they fell sick allegedly because of food poisoning in their house at Mauza Khnqah Ghalwan in Lodhran district on Saturday night.
According to Lodhran Rescue 1122 media coordinator, on receiving a call the emergency service teams rushed to the village, where they found all nine members of a family vomiting and crying with abdominal pain.
The rescuers immediately rendered them first aid on the spot and shifted them in ambulances to the local district headquarters (DHQ) hospital, where they were given emergency treatment by doctors.
According to the rescuers, the family members consumed vegetable cooked in their house. They said that some of the sick persons claimed that a lizard had accidentally fallen into the cooking pot and they unknowingly ate the vegetable, resulting in severe pain and vomiting.
The patients include Ms Asma (27), Ms Sobia (28), Ms Shaheena (40), Zainab (10), Atif(17), Afan (4), Ayan Abbas (6), Dua (5) and Farhat Abbas (40).
The doctors at the DHQ hospital told Dawn that the treatment of the sick persons was going on, hoping they would recover in a couple of days.
FIRE: A heap of about 20,000 maunds of cotton was damaged in a fire erupting at a cotton factory at Chak No 24/ BC on Yazman Road near Bahawalpur city.
According to Rescue 1122, the cotton was piled up on the factory’s premises, which caught fire. On an emergency call, the Rescue 1122 firefighters, along with four fire engines, rushed to the scene and launched extinguishing operation.
They extinguished the blaze after two-hour-long efforts, while the cooling process took another hour to complete.
The rescuers said the cause of the fire could not be ascertained yet, with the factory owners claiming that the blaze might have been caused by heating of the cotton stock lying in open. The rescuers claimed that despite the timely fire-extinguishing operation, extensive damage was caused to the cotton.
They claimed that due to the timely operation, other cotton stocks lying nearby in the factory were saved.
Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2026
