RAWALPINDI: Five people were killed in different incidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Abid Junaid, complained to the Naseerabad police that he was living in a makeshift tent along with his brother Sajid Iqbal, 28, as they had been boring a water tube well in the area.

He said he along with his brother was sleeping inside the tent when a stray bullet hit his brother injuring him critically.

He said the injured, however, died on the way to the PIMS hospital.

In the second incident, a 28-year-old woman was beaten to death by unidentified persons outside her house in the Saddar Bairooni area on Wednesday.

Syed Ibrar Shah, brother of the victim, complained to the police that his mother informed him that his sister Ms Nasreen left her house for cattle shed for cleaning but didn’t return.

She said after she went to see her daughter, she found her dipped in a pool of blood lying adjacent to the wall of cattle shed. He said in the FIR that his sister was murdered by some unidentified persons.

In the third incident, a man suspected to be addict allegedly committed suicide in his house in Awan Town Girja Road.

Zeeshanul Haq, brother of the victim, said in his statement recorded with the police that his brother Ihtisham had been addicted for the last three to four years. He said his brother was sleeping in his room when he heard the sound of gunfire. He rushed to his room and found him lying in a pool of blood and a 12-bore gun lying close to his head. He said that his brother had killed himself.

Islamabad

Two persons, including a girl, were killed in separate firing incidents in the federal capital, police said.

In the first incident, a girl was killed and her mother injured in a firing incident in G-8/4. The deceased was identified as Sadia Bibi, 12, and the injured as Zar Bibi.

The police said that following a quarrel between their children, one Risaldar Khan along with his children came to the residence of Azhar Khan where a brawl started between them.

They said that Risaldar attacked Azhar with a baton and as a result he sustained a head injury. They said the injured then brought a rifle from his residence and started firing at the attackers.

However, his neighbours, the girl and her mother, sustained bullet injuries, the police said, adding they later shifted the injured to hospital where Sadia Bibi was pronounced dead, while condition of Zar Bibi was critical.

The police arrested both the men after registration of a murder and attempted murder case against them and recovered the rifle.

In another incident, one Safir Shah, 30, was killed in Phulgran, police said.

After getting information, the police reached the place of occurrence near Kalma Chowk, Phulgran, and shifted the body to hospital.

In the afternoon, the victim’s family, relatives and neighbours gathered at Bhera Bridge along with the victim’s coffin and blocked it to protest against the delay in arrest of the alleged killers.

They dispersed after assurance by the police that the accused would be arrested soon. SSP (operations) Mustafa Tanweer said the victim was killed while he was sleeping during early hours of Thursday. He said the investigators had started working on some clues to arrest the killer(s).

Published in Dawn, August 6th, 2021