GUJRANWALA, May 4: Four people, including a landlord, were shot dead in an ambush by some dozen assailants near sessions court here on Wednesday. Chaudhry Muhammad Pervaiz of Bhadey Tetley village was on way back to his village after pursuing a murder case by his car (LZG-8031) along with his two gunmen Muhammad Arshad Chattha and Wilson Masih. As they reached Delta Road near the sessions court, armed assailants opened indiscriminate fire on them. Consequently, all occupants of the car and a passerby, identified as Muhammad Boota of Farid Town, died instantly while Awais Ahmad, a passerby boy, sustained injuries.

DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq and senior police officers rushed to the spot and got the bodies removed to the local DHQ Hospital for autopsy.

Police chased the accused assailants, but they managed to escape on three-wheelers.

Muhammad Amin, the deceased’s brother, said that an old enmity had brought about the killing of his brother and three others.

It was reported that an enmity between the deceased and Bhoper Klan Nazim Haji Akhtar was also going on for quite sometime. The latter had been murdered in Lahore a few months ago.

Satellite Town police have registered a case against MPA Chaudhry Amanat Virk and 16 other nominated accused and are investigating.

SUICIDE: A mother of six children allegedly committed suicide by taking poison over a domestic dispute in Baghbanpura here on Wednesday.

Kalsoom had a quarrel with her husband Shafqat over the issue of expenses and took poison. She died on way to the DHQ Hospital.

RELEASED: The PPP leader and union council Nazim, Muhammad Aslam, was released here on Wednesday.

The police had arrested the PPP leader of Township, Lahore, on the arrival of Asif Ali Zardari from Dubai on April 16 and later detained him in the Gujranwala central jail.

PPP activists of Lahore and Gujranwala welcomed him warmly as he came out from the jail and took him to Lahore in a caravan.