Headlines 9am: 49 coronavirus deaths reported, monsoon rains expected

Here are the headlines from SAMAA TV’s 9am bulletin.

  • There has been a significant decrease in the coronavirus deaths across Pakistan. Forty-nine deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours.
  • Lahore woke up to heavy rain Monday morning and the weather turned pleasant. People who were worried about the rising mercury took a sigh of relief.
  • Gangsters remain active in Rajanpur after the arrest of Chotu gang members. Suspected gangsters opened fire on the houses of different villagers for not paying them extortion money. The people were forced to hide in the fields, while many animals were killed. The villagers staged a protest and asked for protection.
  • Author Fatima Bhutto has criticised the Sindh government’s decision to name a police training college in Saeedabad after Shahid Hayat, who was allegedly accused of the murder of Murtaza Bhutto. “I’ve never forgotten their complicity with my father’s killers. A monument will remind everyone else.” she wrote in a tweet.
  • Five men, including three brothers, were killed after being released from jail in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala Monday morning. Ten men were in a wagon and returning to their village when gunmen on motorcycles stopped the vehicle and opened fire on it. Five injured men have been shifted to a hospital.
  • The Pakistan Army said Sunday that its troops have shot down an Indian “spying” quadcopter in Hot Spring Sector along the Line of Control. In a statement, the ISPR said that the quadcopter had intruded 850 meters on Pakistan’s side of the Line of Control.


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