Four shot dead, two injured in Bahawalpur

Police say armed men stormed house and opened indiscriminate fire at the family

BAHAWALPUR: Four people were killed and two others including a minor girl injured when armed men opened indiscriminate fire at a family in Khairpur Tamewali area on Sunday.

Police said armed men stormed a house in Khairpur Tamewali area and opened indiscriminate fire at the family sitting in the house. As a result of the firing, four people died on the spot while two others including a woman and a minor girl ssuffered bullet wound.

Police said the preliminary investigation revealed that the fire was opened by the brothers of a girl who contracted a love with a man of the victim family.

The woman and her husband were also killed in the firing, the police said. The assailants managed to escape from the scene. Police reached the scene and shifted the bodies and injured to a local hospital. Khairpur Tamewali police have lodged case against the accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 13^th, 2019.