DADU: A youth was shot dead by unknown assailants at a tea shop in Shaheed Makhdoom Bilawal town near Dadu city on Saturday.

According to the area police, the youth, Ahmed Khan Solangi, was having tea at a roadside tea shop at Jamali bus stop near Dodani Jamali village when armed men arrived and shot him before quickly fleeing the area. The victim died on the spot, they added.

Personnel from the Makhdoom Bilawal police station collected the body and took it to the Dadu Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination. They said the victim was a resident of Lal Bakhsh Solangi village of Dadu taluka.

It was gathered that the victim had been embroiled in a love marriage dispute with a family for seven months. A few months back, he had visited Dadu Press Club to reveal his ordeal relating to his intended freewill marriage and sought protection from threats he had allegedly been facing from the family of the woman he intended to marry.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2022