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Woman killed, five injured over dispute

OKARA: Rivals shot dead a woman and injured five people of a family on a land dispute on Thursday.

The police said Muhammad Rafiq and Maqbool had litigation on land at Bariky, near Haveli Lakkha. On Wednesday, Rafiq and his people were working in fields when 36 armed accomplices of Maqbool arrived and started indiscriminate firing on them, leaving Rafiq’s daughter Sonia dead while Khalid, Akhtar, Akram, Hashim and Asghar received bullets shots. All the injured and the body were shifted to the nearby rural health centre.

On the report of Rafiq, the Haveli police registered a case against 36 people, among them Rashid, Maqbool, Tariq, Taj, Ahmad, Aftab Naeem, Mukhtar, Muhammad Ali, Noor Nabi and Qudratullah, all from Bahawalnagar.

Source: Dawn