Jubilant firing: Three children injured, 8 arrested

Police claimed to have arrested eight men tors on this charge during separate incidents in Faisalabad.

FAISALABAD:
As many as three children were injured aerial firing on Sunday. Police claimed to have arrested eight men tors on this charge during separate incidents in Faisalabad. Police said the children were injured after a guest shot in the air at a wedding in Satiana area. They said a few other men joined the firing, resultantly hitting three children. The injured children were taken to a hospital, where doctors treating them said that the condition of one of them was critical. Separately, Gulberg police claimed to have arrested eight men for aerial firing in various cases. Those arrested were identified as Saeed, Ahmad, Usman, Khwaja Usman, Murtaza, Arsalan, Tahir and Muhammad Haider.


Published in The Express Tribune, March 19th, 2012.