SHEIKHUPURA, April 13: An assistant sub-inspector and his uncle were gunned down allegedly by their rivals on Lahore Road here on Wednesday. Reports said ASI Sarfraz along with his uncle, Asghar, was going to the District Police Office to appear before an investigation officer on his motorcycle when their rivals Hasan Mahmood, Ghafoor and another car rider fired at them near Saim Nullah. As a result, Sarfraz died on the spot while his uncle Asghar breathed his last at DHQ Hospital.

The deceased ASI and his uncle were the resident of Makki 460 near Farooqabad and had an old enmity with the attackers.

THREE KILLED: Three people, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents in and around the city on Wednesday.

On Ghang Road, Shahid Shah shot dead his wife Mussarat Bibi, a mother of two, over a petty dispute.

An outlaw was reportedly killed in an encounter with Saddar police while his two accomplices managed to escape.

Allah Ditta died instantly while three others sustained serious injuries in an exchange of fire between two rival groups in Sharqpur village.

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