Deadly sport: Man strangled by ‘friends’ over dispute
Police arrest six suspects.
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FAISALABAD:
A group of men strangled one of their acquaintances over an altercation during a race at a playground in Waris Pura on Saturday.
Batala Colony police claimed that Ayub Masih and his friends Imran Javaid, Yaqoob Masih, Samran Masih, Arif Masih and Tanveer Masih, all in their early twenties, had been drunk at the time of the incident.
They placed a bet to see who could still run the fastest. They got into a fight with Ayub Masih and beat him up and strangled him, police said.
Ayub Masih’s uncle Ghulab Masih told media people that there were around 50 people in the playground at the time. “Ayub got into an argument with the rest of the boys. They were stronger and greater in number so they overpowered him,” he said. The boys, in a fit of rage, then strangled him, killing him on the spot, he said.
Rafiq Akhtar, who was present when the incident occurred, told The Express Tribune that when the boys started beating Ayub up, he begged them to let him go but they were so infuriated and inebriated that they strangled him in the presence of scores of people. He said the bystanders were afraid to physically intervene in the matter, scared that the boys might turn on them too.
The Batala Colony station house officer said they had arrested the men nominated in the FIR. He said they had taken the body to a mortuary for a post mortem.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2014.
A group of men strangled one of their acquaintances over an altercation during a race at a playground in Waris Pura on Saturday.
Batala Colony police claimed that Ayub Masih and his friends Imran Javaid, Yaqoob Masih, Samran Masih, Arif Masih and Tanveer Masih, all in their early twenties, had been drunk at the time of the incident.
They placed a bet to see who could still run the fastest. They got into a fight with Ayub Masih and beat him up and strangled him, police said.
Ayub Masih’s uncle Ghulab Masih told media people that there were around 50 people in the playground at the time. “Ayub got into an argument with the rest of the boys. They were stronger and greater in number so they overpowered him,” he said. The boys, in a fit of rage, then strangled him, killing him on the spot, he said.
Rafiq Akhtar, who was present when the incident occurred, told The Express Tribune that when the boys started beating Ayub up, he begged them to let him go but they were so infuriated and inebriated that they strangled him in the presence of scores of people. He said the bystanders were afraid to physically intervene in the matter, scared that the boys might turn on them too.
The Batala Colony station house officer said they had arrested the men nominated in the FIR. He said they had taken the body to a mortuary for a post mortem.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2014.