LAHORE: A young man and his wife were allegedly shot dead at their home in Baghbanpura here on Monday.

A police official said Shahzad (30) and his wife Farah (28) were asleep at the rooftop of their home at Shadipura. He said the assailants entered the house through wooden ladder they had brought with them to reach the rooftop. The police official said the couple was shifted to a local hospital but died there due to multiple bullet wounds.

He said it was a second attack carried out on the couple at their home in the last 10 months which proved fatal.

The family had lodged a case against some eight suspects in the first armed attack. The police are investigating the double murder case keeping in view the previous incident besides exploring other options.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2022