Elderly woman loses life in struggle for free flour

MUZAFFARGARH: Another elderly woman died on Sunday as she was trying to get flour from the Punjab government’s free flour point in Muzaffargarh, ARY News reported.

According to police, the incident took place at Khangarh police station in Muzaffargarh, wherein the woman had come to collect free wheat flour.

After standing in the queue, she got exhausted and became unconscious due to low blood pressure.

The elderly woman was shifted to nearby hospital for medical treatment where she breathed her last. The doctors claimed she died of heart attack.

In a statement, the police said that the woman’s body was handed over to her family.

It is pertinent to mention here that the government has established flour distribution centres in several districts to provide the commodity free of cost to people during Ramazan.

However, these distribution centres have witnessed mismanagement as long queues line up with people eager to get the essential commodity for free.

Last month, a stamped during free flour distribution at Sahiwal’s Quaid-e-Azam Stadium left two women dead and 45 others injured.

The incident took place owing to mismanagement and flawed arrangements for free wheat flour distribution among under-previliged persons.

In an earlier stampede at a flour distribution point in Faisalabad last week an elderly man had died who came to get free flour from a distribution point.