Land dispute: Man kills elder brother

MANSEHRA: Two people were killed while another one committed suicide in Mansehra district on Tuesday. Police said that there was a dispute between two brothers, who hailed from Battagram, over a piece of agriculture land. Pervez’s buffalo entered the maize crop of Yousuf, his younger brother, which infuriated Yousaf and he opened fire at his elder brother, killing Pervez on the spot. In the second incident, a teenage boy drowned in the Siran River while bathing. Meanwhile, in Sum Elahi village, a married man committed suicide over a domestic dispute.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24^th,  2011.