Traffic warden shot in Rawalpindi for stopping one-wheeling

Police register case against unidentified people but find few clues

RAWALPINDI: A traffic warden was shot and injured when he tried to stop an unidentified man riding a motorbike in Rawalpindi early on Thursday morning.

The constable was rushed to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital where doctors operated on him. He was said to be doing well afterwards.

Sohail Shahzad had been deputed under the Sixth Road flyover to check one wheeling on early Thursday morning as part of the Rawalpindi police’s ongoing drive against one-wheeling.



At around 5:30am, three men riding on two motorbikes from Rehmanabad while heading towards Islamabad approached the intersection. One of the riders was one-wheeling. When the 33-year-old Shahzad tried to intercept the bikers, a man, clad in black clothes and riding an unregistered motorbike, shot at the police officer.

Of the four bullets fired by the assailant, one of them pierced through the warden’s left rib before exiting from the right side and hitting his right arm. Shahzad was rushed to the BBH by Rescue 1122 officials. After the incident, other traffic wardens and Chief Traffic Officer Yousaf Ali Shahid rushed to the hospital.

CTO Yousaf told The Express Tribune that traffic wardens had been employing different tactics to nab young men involved in one-wheeling on Benazir Bhutto Road.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 16^th, 2017.