Rivalry: Two killed in exchange of fire

Police booked 11 people and 45 unidentified persons on charges of murder and attempted murder.

ISLAMABAD:

Two men were killed after a quarrel between residents of a Rawalpindi neighbourhood led to a gunfight late on Thursday night.

Bilal Maqbool and Faisal Satti died due to bullet injuries in what appeared to be a firing exchange between two groups of residents in Ghareebabad, a densely populated, low-income residential area near Chaklala Scheme III.

According to a first information report (FIR) registered by the Airport Police Station, some residents of the locality accused some young men of entering their street to one-wheel on their bikes and fire guns in to the air on the second day of Eid.

Police said when the residents of the street tried to stop the young men, who also lived in the same neighbourhood, the argument got heated and both parties brought out weapons including pistols and knives.

In the fight that ensued, Maqbool and Satti were both shot dead. Five others were injured, according to records available with the Airport Police Station. The injured men were identified as Asad Jahangir, Mairaj Jahangir, Nauman Jahangir, Ahmed and Aman. The injured received stab wounds, police said. The injured were transferred to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital.

The police booked 11 people and 45 unidentified persons on charges of murder, attempted murder and for disrupting public peace.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2013.