HARIPUR: A prayer leader was shot dead over unknown reasons in Dhenda union council here on Friday.

Police officials quoted witnesses as saying that Maulana Allah Yar Khan of Pindi Gheb had been serving prayer leader in the Dhamkar Colony mosque for last few years.

They said when he was stepping out of the mosque after Friday prayers Mohammad Nawaz of the same village opened fire injuring him critically.

The injured was shifted to the trauma centre, where doctors pronounced him dead. The accused managed to escape, the officials said.

Meanwhile, a man was shot dead in Mohallah Qateel Shifai the previous night.

The city police said the deceased, Rashid Pervez, 38, resident of Mohallah Khandaq Kotnajibullah, had recently returned from abroad and contracted second marriage.

They said Mr Pervez died on way to the Haripur Trauma Centre.

His family didn’t name anyone as killer.

The police said they had begun investigation after registering an FIR.

Meanwhile, the administration sealed a godown of animal hides here the other day and ordered its shifting outside the residential areas.

Published in Dawn, December 26th, 2020