SHEIKHUPURA, April 20: A police inspector was shot dead by two unidentified men while his wife sustained injuries on Jhang Road here on Thursday morning.

Eyewitnesses said the attackers were lying in ambush. As Inspector Rana Ameer Afzal, posted at Sangla Hill as a staff officer to DSP (investigation), came out of his house in Street No 6 along with his wife Shafqat on a motorcycle, the assailants intercepted him and opened fire on him, killing him on the spot. He was reportedly going to drop his wife, a schoolteacher, to her school.

The eyewitnesses said the assailants asked Inspector Afzal’s wife to get aside as they wanted to kill her husband.

DPO Aslam Tareen said the incident was the outcome of a land dispute. Inspector Afzal had already escaped a bid on his life some time ago,, he added.

Meanwhile, the body was buried in the graveyard of his ancestral village after autopsy.