TOBA TEK SINGH, June 8: Three people lost their lives on Sunday when 10 assailants opened fired on their opponents in a nearby Chak 319-JB, some 15kms away from here.

The Samiullah group and the Ghulam Muhammad group were at daggers drawn with each other over a 10-marla residential plot. The owner of the land was an old person who had died sometime back. He deceased had no legal heirs. Since the death of the owner both the groups were vying to occupy the residential plot.

On Sunday, 10 armed men of the Samiullah group entered the house of Ghulam Muhammad by scaling its boundary wall and started firing on inmates. Consequently, Ghulam Muhammad and his son Abdul Hafeez died instantly while a member of the accused party, Sanaullah, also died as a result of firing by his own group.

The assailants reportedly continued firing for two hours and the women and children of Ghulam Muhammad saved their lives by hiding themselves in nearby houses. The bodies were handed over to their heirs for burial after post-mortem at the DHQ Hospital.

Saddar police have registered a case against the assailants.

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