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FAISALABAD, Nov 15: Leather exporter and local trade leader Rana Haq Nawaz was shot dead while his friend police inspector Ijaz Khan Baluch sustained multiple injuries in what seemed to be a ‘targeted’ hunt in Muhammadi Colony on Wednesday night.
Details gathered by this correspondent revealed shoe shop owner Rana Haq Nawaz, 39, along with his friend Ijaz, returned home on Wednesday. His younger brother told him that he saw some people roaming around on their roof the previous night.
Nawaz and his friend went to the rooftop while members of his family and neighbours heard bullet shots. They rushed to the spot and found Nawaz and his friend bleeding.
The injured were taken to a hospital where Nawaz breathed his last while the condition of his friend was stated to be stable.
The younger sister of the deceased was reportedly killed mysteriously a couple of months back. Nawaz claimed in the report that his sister died accidentally while cleaning the gun. However, members of his family were suspicious of the accident. They claimed murder of Nawaz had direct link with the demise of his sister.
The deceased was an active member in politics among traders.
He was said to be a mate of some police officials. He had reportedly divorced two wives in three years.
LOOTED: Robbers and dacoits on Thursday looted cash, gold ornaments and valuables and drove away with a car in different strikes in the city.
A gang burst into dentist Dr Muhammad Shafiq’s clinic on the Narwala Road, snatched cash, jewellery and wrist watches from patients at gunpoint and fled locking the main door.
In another incident, two robbers took away Rs10,000 in cash and valuables from a general store on the Jail Road. They left the shop threatening owner Khurram Shahzad.
Some highwaymen snatched Rs20,000 in cash and a mobile telephone set from Zulfiqar Ahmad of Jhang near the Jinnah Colony. They drove away with his car throwing him on the roadside.
Meanwhile, thieves stole video games and some other articles worth Rs35,000 from a shop in Nighebanpura by breaking the locks of the shops.
Thieves took away electronic devices worth thousands of rupees from Shahzad’s shop on the Faisalabad-Sargodha Road.
Over two dozen villagers in Jaranwala were deprived of valuables by a gang.
