LAHORE, June 12: Robbers shot dead a woman near Pir Ghazi Road in Samanabad on Sunday.

Quoting witnesses, Samanabad police said 45-year-old Azmat Bibi, wife of Sadiq, of Akbar Street in Chah Jammunwala, was intercepted by two gunmen riding a motorcycle when she was on a morning walk along with her two neighbours. The gunmen tried to snatch her gold bangles and on her resistance, they shot her dead and fled.

Azmat is survived by six children.

Police registered a murder case against unidentified suspects. The family refused autopsy and showed reluctance to even get a case registered.

WALL: Five people gunned down a 55-year-old man and injured three others, including a woman, after a dispute on wall construction in Dhop Sari on Sunday.

Sandah police said Umer Butt and his four accomplices opened fire at his next-door neighbour Zaman and his relatives after they exchanged arguments over the construction of a wall by Zaman. Muhammad Zulfiqar died at Mayo Hospital while Munawar, Amjad and Sakina were under treatment.

FOUND MURDERED: Baghbanpura police found the body of a man, who had gone missing from his home one day ago, near Sheller Chowk.

Police said victim identified as Muhammad Rasheed, of Tibba Qilla Khazana, went out of his home on Saturday night to enjoy rain and did not return. On Saturday morning, passerby spotted Rasheed, who was employee at a hotel, with his throat slit open on a street next to his residential street.

According to victim’s maternal nephew Qasim, Rasheed had no enmity with anyone.

ROBBERY: Two robbers looted Rs25,000 from a shopkeeper in Main Market of Township on Sunday. Muhammad Asif reported to the Township police that two robbers snatched cash at gunpoint.

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