TOBA TEK SINGH: A fight over pigeon race claimed the life of a man while another was seriously wounded in Gojra tehsil village Chak 94-JB on Friday.

According to the Gojra Saddar police, brothers Muhammad Umair and Muhammad Zubair shot at and injured Mudassar Saif, 32, and Azhar Hameed, 26, to avenge the exchange of harsh words stemming from the pigeon race.

Rescue 1122 rushed both to the Gojra tehsil headquarters hospital where Mudassar succumbed to his injuries while doctors referred Azhar to the Faisalabad’s Allied Hospital.

DIES: A man who was injured in indiscriminate fire on a lawyer and his friends by their opponents on Thursday at Rajana, succumbed to his wounds on Friday at the Faisalabad’s Allied Hospital.

Shaukat Ali, of Chak 515-GB, was in the same van in which lawyer Imtiazul Hassan Baloch was travelling from Toba Tek Singh to Kamalia.

The Kamalia Tehsil Bar Association members observed a strike on Friday to condemn an attempt on the life of their colleague.

Bar President Mazhar Iqbal Malhotra demanded immediate arrest of the attackers.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2020