Drive-by shooting: Cops clueless even after passage of two days

No arrests made in either case; police yet to identify culprits in one.

ISLAMABAD: Police are clueless two days after two separate murder incidents were reported to them. No headway has been made in both the cases, registered last Friday.

Police said several people attacked and shot a man dead on Lehtrar Road within the jurisdiction of Khanna Police Station. A policeman eating at a nearby restaurant told Khanna police that the suspects arrived in two vehicles, and seven or eight motorcycles.

The policeman, ASI Akhlaq Ahmed, said the attackers opened fire and shot a man dead, whose identity could not be immediately confirmed.

He said the attackers also injured a taxi driver and fled.

Khanna SHO Abdur Rehman told The Express Tribune on Sunday that the victim had been identified as Waseem, a resident of Shakrial area in Rawalpindi. He said the body had been handed over to the family who hailed from Abbottabad, after post-mortem.

The police, while quoting the victim’s family said that Waseem was 17 years old.

The SHO, however, said the victim looked around 22-23 years of age.

Rehman said the family had taken the body to Abbottabad for burial.

He said police would interrogate the family members as to find out with whom and when Waseem had left the house the day he was killed.

Rehman said police would start investigation in two to three days, when the family was back from Abbottabad.

The second murder incident took place in G-15 on May 15 but was reported to Tarnol police last Friday.

Muhammad Waris told the police that his son Abdur Rehman was allegedly tortured to death by Muhammad Aamir.

Tarnol SHO Jamshed Khan said the police were investigating the case but had made no arrests yet.

He did not answer any further questions and hung up.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2016.