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.

INJURED: Three armed men shot at and injured a man in village 64/SP.

The Haveli police said 10 days back, Riaz was at the house of his brother-in-law, Iqbal, in the village when suspects Aslam, Abbas and Imran came there, shot at and injured him and fled.

On the report of Riaz’s brother-in-law Muhammad Iqbal, the police registered a case.

RAPE ATTEMPT: A man was booked for a rape attempt in Hassangarh.

The Shergarh police said the complainant said his wife visited the neighbour’s house where the suspect with an unidentified accomplice dragged her to a room and tried to rape her, but her cries alerted passersby who rescued her.

Suspects fled the scene, hurling life threats at her.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2022