LAHORE: A young man was allegedly shot dead for asking his neighbour not to drive motorbike rashly in the street in Kahna area here on Friday.

Initial police inquiries suggested that the suspect, Latif Safdar, used to drive motorcycle rashly at Bado Ki village.

As per police, on Friday, Safdar was doing stunts on his bike when children were playing in the village street. Adil Yousuf stopped him and requested him to avoid rash driving.

This led to exchange of words between the two, the police said, adding that later Safdar returned with a pistol and shot at and injured Adil critically.

He was shifted to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

The police lodged a murder case against the suspect who had fled the scene.

In another incident taking place in Shahdara area, Rehana Bibi, 40, was shot dead in her house by an unidentified armed man.

The victim’s son, Huzaifa, told police that as the family members heard gunshots, they rushed to the first floor of the house and found his mother lying in a pool of blood.

He said she was shifted to hospital where she died before getting any treatment.

He claimed they had no enmity with anyone.

The police shifted the woman’s body to the city morgue for an autopsy and lodged a murder case against the unidentified killer(s).

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2021