Violent crime: Man kills father over family land

Woman among three people killed in three incidents.

BAHAWALPUR:

A man killed his father in a land dispute while three people other were killed in separate incidents, police said on Tuesday.

They said Muhammad Yaqub, a local landlord of Chowk Bahadurpur Kukri village, had an argument with his son over property. Yaqub’s son killed him and fled.

Police sent the body for autopsy.

Separately, four men shot dead a man in Rahim Yar Khan’s Chak 96P.

Police said Akbar Ali was on his way to his office on Monday night when Muhammad Shahbaz, Muhammad Shahzad, Basharat Ali, Shaukat Ali and another man shot him dead.

In another incident, unidentified men killed a person, identified as Muhammad Ramazan, after accusing him of karo-kari in Kot Sabzal near Rahim Yar Khan.

They later threw the body in sugarcane fields and fled. Ramazan worked as driver for a local landlord. Farmers called police who sent the body for autopsy.

In Ahmadpur East, a woman, identified as Aashu Mai, was killed in a shootout between two groups of villagers.



Police said that three other people were also injured in the clash that had ensued from a land dispute.

Robberies

Robbers made off with Rs2.25 million in separate incidents in Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur, police said. They also injured three men on resistance.

Police said wheat dealers Abdul Malik, 60, and Rafiq Ahmad, 45, were on their way after withdrawing money from a bank on Shahi Road when three men riding a motorcycle stopped them at gunpoint.

The robbers snatched Rs450,000 from them. They shot and injured Malik and Ahmad when they resisted. They were taken to a hospital where Ahmad’s condition was critical.

In Bahawalpur’s Chak 98DNB, wheat dealer Ilyas Cheema and his driver were driving back after withdrawing Rs1.8 million from a bank when two armed men, who had been following them since they left the bank, fired at their car near Qainchi Road. Cheema received a bullet in his leg and was taken to a hospital. The robbers fled with the money.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 11^th, 2014.