A class 10 student was shot and injured by his friend over a dispute which developed between the two friends over playing PUBG mobile game.
The incident happened in a residential area near Tombs of Mir Dynasty in the limits of Market police station in Hyderabad on Wednesday evening.
The boy Ali Qadri, son of Deputy Superintendent of Police Asad Qadri, sustained gunshot injury to his right shoulder. He was shifted to Liaquat University Hospital.
The SHO Market police station Khan Muhammad Brahmani told the media that the suspect Adeel Buriro went to Qadri's home and asked him to come out. As soon as Qadri opened the gate, Buriro shot him and fled.
The pistol, however, has been recovered and it is licensed in the name of the boy's father.
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The DSP told the media that his son went to check the door after a bell rang and returned back in blood. Quoting his son he said Buriro had threatened Qadri during playing the online game. The incident's FIR has not been lodged so far. According to the LUH sources, the boy is out of danger.
Earlier in February, Punjab Police had urged the provincial government to impose a ban forthwith on the online game Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) nearly two weeks after the quadruple murder of a family at the hands of a teenager in Lahore shocked the nation.
In January, police arrested an 18-year-old “PUBG addict” from Lahore after he allegedly shot dead his mother, sister and brother while they were asleep.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 31st, 2022.
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