SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 18: Six people sustained serious bullet injuries on Sunday when two rival groups exchanged fire over a land dispute in Kot Ranjeet village, some eight kilometre from here.
Sanaullah along with his eight accomplices had forcibly attempted to take possession of the land. But, their rival group — Shabbir and his accomplices — offered resistance which led to an exchange of firing between them. As a result, Sanaullah, Shabbir, Javed, Hanif, Shahzad and Bashir received critical injuries. They were admitted to the local DHQ Hospital where three of them were stated to be in precarious condition.
LOOTED: Four dacoits on Sunday looted the house of a petrol pump owner in Civil Lines area.
Armed dacoits entered Abdul Hamid’s house by scaling its boundary wall. The intruders held up inmates, locked them in a room, collected cash, ornaments and other valuables worth Rs400,000 and escaped in a car.