LAHORE, May 5: A ‘faith healer’ was shot dead by unidentified people near Rohi Chowk in Nishtar Colony on Saturday.

The motive for the shooting remained unclear, with police suspecting the victim might have been shot by one of his clients.

Police said Syed Sultan Shah of Kacha Kamahan Road was riding a bike when two unidentified motorcyclists fired three shots at him. The assailants fled and Shah was transported to Lahore General Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.

Police sent his body for an autopsy and started investigation.

DROWNS: A 12-year-old boy was feared drowned in the city canal near Dharampura on Saturday.

Mughalpura police said some schoolchildren informed the emergency police that they saw a child jumping into the canal and disappearing.

Police said rescue efforts had been started keeping in view witnesses’ statements, but nobody contacted the police for the missing child.

INJURED: Two women were injured at a wedding ceremony after relatives of the bridegroom resorted to jubilation fire outside a marriage hall in Gujjarpura Scheme on Saturday.

Gujjarpura police said the incident took place moments after Baraat reached the marriage hall and a brother and a cousin of the bridegroom resorted to aerial firing.

The firing left Rabia Faisal and Nadia, both relatives of the bride, injured and they were rushed to a nearby hospital.

The incident shook the participants of the ceremony and witnesses alerted the emergency police.

Quoting witnesses, police said the bride’s family refused to go ahead with the function and returned home without ceremony.

Tortured: Unidentified people tortured the watchman of a PPP MPA at latter’s residence in Shadman on Saturday.

Shadman police said Hamid Bashir was on duty outside the residence of Attock-based PPP MPA Malik Shayan when unidentified people covered his face with a cloth, subjected him to severe torture and fled.

The injured was admitted to Services Hospital.

FIRE: A big fire broke out in a chemicals factory in Scheme-II of Salamatpur in Shalimar Town on Saturday, burning down valuables worth hundreds of thousands.

According to Rescue 1122, the fire erupted in the factory of Hasan Nawaz because of a short-circuit.

The fire engulfed the whole unit and it took firefighters at least two hours to control fire.