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Civil Defense department has launched a stringent crack-down to check the dangerous prevalence of re-filling of Gas cylinders

BAHAWALPUR(PR)Civil Defense department has launched a stringent crack-down to check the dangerous prevalence of re-filling of Gas cylinders in district Bahawalpur. District officer civil defense Fatima Hashim Khan inspected various areas of the district and lodged criminal cases against the accused that were found involved in illegal re-filling of Gas cylinders. District Officer civil defense was accompanied by Assistant Commissioner Bahawalpur city Rao Tasleem Akhter.

"Under the imposed section 144 the illegal re-filling of Gas cylinders has become a cognizable and non bale-able offence which would serve as a great deterrent to check this illegal practice", District officer civil defense maintained.

She vowed that civil defense department would mobilize all available resources to completely eliminate this illegal practice which would create an peaceful atmosphere. She further maintained that civil defense department has launched criminal cases against the accused involved in illegal re-filling of Gas cylinders at Police Station Baghdad-ul-Jadeed and Civil lines.

Rescue 1122 control room received a total number of 36810 phone calls

BAHAWALPUR(PR)Divisional emergency rescue 1122 control room received a total number of 36810 phone calls out of which 2219 calls were classified as emergency calls and the response duration was estimated at 6.53 minutes. This was stated by Divisional Emergency officer rescue 1122 Dr. Asif Rahim Channer, in a press statement.