Orange Line staffers beat men for starting fire near station
They have been arrested SAMAA | Jahangir Akram Khan Posted: Jan 15, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
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Five employees of Lahore s Orange Line Metro Train were arrested after a video of them beating labourers at the Awan Town station went viral.
The employees told the labourers to crouch like a hen and hold their ears with their hands and while the labourers were sitting like that the staffers attacked them with sticks.
According to the labourers, the staffers attacked them for starting a fire near the station. We did start a small fire to keep ourselves warm in the cold weather, a labourer said.
The much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train was inaugurated in the month of October. AFP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab government highlights its achievements of 2020 and among them, the most prominent are making south Punjab secretariat functional, recruitment of doctors, launching the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development project and people’s assistance programme, constructing mother and child health hospitals, issuing health and medicine cards and other development programmes.
The Punjab government says the year 2020 was fateful for south Punjab as senior officials were posted in the South Punjab secretariat along with approval of the design of the secretariat building.
Up to 25,000 doctors and paramedics were recruited in the health department as well as recruitments of 10,000 police constables.
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