PESHAWAR: Police on Saturday registered a First Information Report (FIR) in the Dera Ismail khan incident in which chemical waste coming out of Chasma Sugar Mills-2 claimed the lives of 10 people including five of a family.
Seven people including the owner of the mill was charged in the FIR while six officials of the Mills had been arrested so far.
The owner, according to police, was still absconding and a search was in progress for his arrest.
The funeral of the deceased had been held while the affected families blocked the Indus Highway near Ranak to protest the incident.
Soon after the funerals, angry villagers also pelted stones at the main gate of the mill and broke open its gate.
The police also resorted to tear gas shelling and stray firing to disperse the angry crowd and more force had been called in from Dera Ismail Khan to control the situation.
Khyber Pakthunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak had yesterday took notice of the incident and had said that those responsible would be taken to task.
The water channel, usually crossed on foot by the locals, is less than two feet deep and mainly carries waste from the mill. Most of the people used to cross the water channel in Ramak's Paloon area on a daily basis for different activities and farming.
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