QUETTA: Four volunteers of a social welfare society working against drug abuse were injured on Tuesday when an addict opened fire at them at the bank of the main sewage drain of the city, which serves as a safe haven for drug abusers since decades.
Police said that the NGO had sent a team of volunteers to the City Nullah to capture addicts and take them to a rehabilitation centre run by it without informing police and other authorities concerned.
A large number of addicts, who have made the congested Nullah home, gathered and offered resistance.
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One of the addicts fired at the volunteers and injured four of them. Police took the injured — Rozi Khan, Qayyum, Abdul Rehman and Saeed — to the civil hospital.
Hundreds of addicts permanently live along the banks of the open drain in the heart of the city near Jinnah Road. A wide range of narcotics is easily available there, with heroin and hashish being the main staple.
Even food stalls have been set up. The Nullah has also become a hideout of criminals.
Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2014