Girl shoots friend, kills self

Family of victim had barred assailant from meeting her

CHAK JHUMRA:

A girl reportedly committed suicide after shooting dead a close friend and injuring her aunt in a village in the Saiyanwala area on Monday over being told to not visit their home.

The incident took place in Chak 24 within the limits of Saiyanwala police station.

The police took the bodies into custody and shifted them to a hospital for postmortem. According to reports from the locality, 24-year-old Shukria Bibi, daughter of Inayat Ali was a friend of 19-year-old Muqaddas Bibi, a resident of the same village.

Muqaddas's father Amjad Ali had forbidden Shukria Bibi to visit his home to meet her.

Enraged over the prohibition, Shukria Bibi first threatened the mother of Muqaddas and later entered her house and opened fire on her friend who was present in the courtyard.

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Muqaddas’s 28-year old aunt Shazia Javed came forward to save her but Shukria Bibi shot her in the leg.

When people from the neighbourhood reached the house after hearing the gunshots, Shukria Bibi once again opened fire.

Eventually, she consumed poisonous pills and took to heels. She threw her pistol into a sewer in the village, but after running for a short distance, she passed out. She was taken into custody by the police and died on way to hospital.

The bodies and the injured were rushed to Allied Hospital.

According to eye-witnesses, Shukria Bibi was accompanied by a boy who gave her a pistol. Villagers also reported to the police that Shukria Bibi had been involbed in quarrels in the locality in the past.

They said Amjad Ali earned his livelihood from a fruit cart.

Muqaddas had two sisters and two brothers, while Shukria Bibi had six sisters and a brother. Her father Inayat Ali had died some time ago.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 2^nd, 2021.