PAKISTAN

  SHEIKHUPURA: Four people, including a woman, were gunned down on Tuesday in Sharqpur tehsil of Sheikhupura due to some old dispute.

The police registered a case against 13 accused named in the killings.

According to police, a local armed Mustafa Group forcefully entered the house of its rival Farman Group and opened indiscriminate firing on the people present there. As a result, four people were killed.

The victims were identified as Muhammad Aslam Bhatti, Akram Bhatti, Amar Bhatti and Nazia BB.

The police said that a six-year-old land dispute between the two groups was the real motive behind the killings. The same dispute had taken lives of some 50 people of a group, police said.

The police shifted the bodies to a local hospital for carrying out postmortem.

It said the alleged gunmen had fled the scene but hoped that they would be arrested soon.