TOBA TEK SINGH: Two men were murdered on Sunday in the Millat Town Police Station area of Faisalabad.
Police said Sabir Ali of Sargodha Road and his friend Altaf Husain of Tandlianwala were travelling near Samana Canal Bridge on a motorcycle when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of Chak 117-JB Dhanolla opened indiscriminate fire, injuring both of them.
Rescue 1122 shifted the injured to the Allied Hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. Police said the suspect, Bhutto, was a relative of the deceased, Sabir, and both of them had quarreled with each other over some family issue some days back. Police arrested the suspect.
ACCIDENT: A man died and five others were injured seriously when a bus and a trailer had a collision on the Lahore Road near Chakku Mor in Jaranwala.
The deceased was identified as Amjad (40) while the injured were identified as Tahir (35), Naeem (60), Asma Bibi (30), Qasim (45) and Usama (13). The wounded were admitted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.
DEMO: Scores of the PTI activists staged a demonstration in support of Prime Minister Imran Khan outside the district press club on the Jhang Road.
They were chanting slogans in favour of the PM and against the opposition alliance.
Addressing the demonstrators, former district nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq and former district PTI president Dr Waheed Akbar condemned the ousted governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar for openly speaking against PTI and Imran Khan during his all Toba visits as the governor.
ENCOUNTER: Two suspected robbers were injured by the firing of their own accomplices who attempted to get them released from the police custody at Chak 388-JB in Saddar police area.
Police said Bilal of Kassowal and Shahbaz of Pirmahal were arrested after they shot dead a shopkeeper, Jehan Bakht, over resistance some days back. Police had arrested them.
On Sunday, police were taking them to the village to recover a motorcycle and weapons they had used in the robbery and killing of the shopkeeper.
Police claimed that when they reached the village, five unidentified accomplices of the suspects attacked the police party to get them free from custody. Meanwhile, both handcuffed men ran towards their accomplices.
However, they received bullet injuries from the fire coming from their accomplices. As a result, Bilal and Shahbaz both were seriously wounded and were admitted to the district headquarters hospital.
Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2022
