LAHORE, Jan 22 Arif Amir, alias Tipu Truckanwala, succumbed to his injuries at Mayo Hospital on Friday, two days after he was shot at in the parking lot of the Allama Iqbal airport.

His body was shifted to the city morgue for autopsy in an ambulance escorted by a large number of his armed relatives and supporters.

The supporters, including women, created moving scenes at the Mayo Hospital dead house as a number of women were mourning the death by beating their chest and cursing the killers.

Pakistan Muslim League-N MNA Bilal Yasin and MPA Ajasam Sharif also visited Mayo Hospital and remained with mourners for a while. The traders of Shahalam Market closed their shops for security reasons.

Doctors who conducted the autopsy said Tipu had received six bullets in all and a bullet in his abdomen proved fatal.

His funeral will be held on Sunday after Zohr prayers as his sister is scheduled to arrive from Canada. His wife and children have already returned from Dubai.

Tipu was taken to hospital late on Wednesday from the airport where he was attacked on his arrival from Dubai. He remained under intensive care at the hospital and more than two dozen of blood bags were injected to him during a six-hour long surgery.

Though doctors pronounced him dead on Friday evening, sources say Tipu had died the day he was admitted to the hospital but the news was held to avoid an immediate backlash from Tipu's supporters against the opponents.

The death of Tipu may trigger another chapter of bloody enmity which had started with the murder of his father, Billa Truckanwala, in 1994. Khurrum Butt who shot at and injured Tipu says he avenged the murder of his brother.

The Sarwar Road police station lodged a first information report against Khurram Butt and six others on the complaint of Tipu's maternal uncle, Sultan Mehmood, alias Bichuh.