RAWALPINDI: Four people were killed in three separate incidents in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.

A woman was killed by three people in her house in Lakhan Colony, Dhamial.

Her husband, Gul Abbas, who is an ex-army man and now works as a private security guard, told the police that his brother and two relatives had come to his house in the early hours of Tuesday.

He said when he unlocked the door, his relatives allegedly forced their way in and that one of them fired at his wife, Sameen Abbas.

The alleged killer managed to escape. She was pronounced dead by doctors at the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.

The police said the Sameen’s son Asad had divorced the sister of the suspects some four months ago.

Separately, a security guard and a cashier were killed in Kallar Syedan.

Amir Siddique told the police that his father Mohammad Siddique, 55, worked as a security guard at a petrol station and that Waqar Hussain, 35 and Mohammad Nazir worked in the station as cashiers.

He said he received a phone call at 1:30am that the patrol station had been raided by some armed men and killed his father and Waqar Hussain.

Mohammad Nazir told the police that he was on duty with the two victims when a car drove in around midnight in which two men wearing black jackets were travelling and that the passengers were carrying Kalashnikovs.

He said the men opened fire at Mohammad Siddique and beat him up when he offered resistance. They fired at him again, killing him on the spot.

Waqar Hussain was also killed when he tried to save Siddique. The attackers escaped with the security guard’s rifle. The police said the murders happened due to old enmity.

In an unrelated incident, the body of a man was found on the banks of a nullah in Ratta Amral on Tuesday.

The body was identified as that of 30-year-old Sabir Hussain. He is said to have left his house for Okara to visit his mother.

The body was taken to DHQ Hospital. There were no apparent torture marks or bullet injuries on the body and the cause of death will be known after a post-mortem.

Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2019