Ablaze: Livestock perished in fire

MANSEHRA: A cattle pen was set ablaze by unidentified men in a village in Oghi on Tuesday, killing all the animals. Tazir Khan of Bagriyan village told the police that he heard his goats bleating in the middle of the night and saw that the cattle pen was engulfed in flames. The fire gutted two rooms, killing two buffaloes, two cows and three goats. Khan did not nominate anyone in the FIR, but insisted that it was a planned attack on his property. He claimed he had incurred a loss of hundreds of thousands of rupees due to the fire.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2012.