ATTOCK, Aug 6: A man killed his wife, mother of nine, over a domestic dispute in the Waisa village of Rangu police.

The police said Alam Khan opened fire on his 65-year-old wife Banoo Bibi over a minor family dispute and fled from the scene on Friday evening.

The woman sustained serious injuries and there was no one to take her to hospital, causing her death.

The police shifted the body to the tehsil headquarters hospital Hazro and later handed it over to the relatives.

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