PTI Tsunami alert in Faisalabad today

FAISALABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest rally to highlight the massive rigging of May elections being held on Sunday here, Geo News reported.

Sources said the arrangements for holding PTI public meeting at Dhobi Ghat here are give a final touch. The existing 15 feet high stage in Dhobi Ghat will be used for addressing the meeting, while a separate rostrum has been built for PTI members of the assembly and ticket holders.

PTI organizers at Dhobi Ghat said that 20,000 chairs have been placed in the pindal, however, security agencies sources estimated the number of chairs around 7/8 thousands only. Large banners have been displayed around the ground and adjacent roads and streets, while big screen has been installed in the ground. Some 3000 policemen will be deployed for security arrangements, according to security plan.

PTI leaders claimed that today’s public rally would be the largest in the Faisalabad history.

District administration has given permission to PTI for holding this rally on the condition that the workers would not carry weapons with them and fireworks prohibited.

5 dead as tsunami hits Chile

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  AP A military vehicle patrols after an earthquake in Iquique, Chile. A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off northern Chile on Tuesday night, setting off a small tsunami that forced evacuations.
   
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  AP People gathered to avoid the tsunami after an earthquake in Iquique, Chile.

Tsunami waves generated by an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale that hit off the Chile coast on Tuesday struck some areas in the north of the country.

The Chilean National Office for Emergency Tuesday organised an evacuation of more than 10,000 people in some coastal areas, Xinhua reported.

According to the University of Chile Seismological Service, the major tremor hit off the Chilean coast at 8.46 p.m. (11.46 p.m. GMT) and the epicentre, with a depth of 44 km, is located 99 km northwest of the mining port of Iquique, near the border with Peru.

Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo attributed the five deaths to heart attacks or being crushed.

Thousands have lost power, and hundreds of thousands of Chileans are spending the night away from their beds due to the evacuation order, which remains in effect for northern Chile.

The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the quake at 8.0 magnitude.

Local radio reported that power went out and communications were affected in some parts of northern Chile while some roads and highways in northern Chile were blocked by landslides, causing traffic jams.

So far, at least 10 strong aftershocks, including a 6.2-magnitude tremor, have occurred.

300 female inmates escape prison

More than 300 inmates escaped from a women’s prison amid a tsunami alert in northern Chile, the interior minister said.

“Around 100 special forces will be sent to the area” of the remote town of Iquique, around 200 kilometres from the Peruvian border, to deal with the problem, Rodrigo Penailillo told reporters.