Team News Riveting
A journalist was crushed to death by a container accompanying Imran’s Khan’s long march in Pakistan two days ago.
The victim, identified as 40-year-old Sadaf Naeem, was working as reporter of a local private TV news channel. The incident happened near Sadhoke.
According to eyewitness accounts, she was trying to climb up the container for a live beeper for her channel. However, because of the massive number of participants pushing their way forward and the security personnel pushing them back, she accidentally fell down from the container and the vehicle ran over her.
Two other reporters were also making the same effort had a miraculous escape, she was immediately shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Kamonki where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
A mother of two, Sadaf was a resident of Ichra in Lahore. She had been covering the long march since it started from Lahore’s Liberty Chowk.
According to her fellow journalists, she was hard working and was seen coverage and reporting on motorcycles, rickshaws and public transport vehicles.
Sadaf’s husband Naeem Bhatti said in a statement to the Kamonki police that this was an accident and he neither wanted to initiate any legal action, nor wanted an autopsy performed on his wife’s body.
Imran, after the accident, announced halting the march.
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi announced financial aid of Rs 25 lakh for her family. Later, it was increased to Rs5 million on PTI chief Imran Khan’s directives.
