As many as 12 persons were killed in separate incidents in and around Faisalabad during the past 24 hours. Police spokesman said here Saturday that a lady constable Nagina Abbas posted at Thikriwala police station, her husband Piran Ditta and suckling son Hussain Abbas were shot dead by her brother Asar Abbas in Chak No 67-JB Sadhar, Saturday morning.
The accused, a resident of Chak No 607-GB, reportedly committed triple murder as her sister Nagina Abbas had contracted love marriage about one-and-a-half years ago against the will of her parents. In another incident, 32-year-old Khalid Mehmood, a resident of Chak No 77-JB Mullanpur, was carrying passengers in a rickshaw when a running train hit the three-wheeler.
As a result, rickshaw driver and a passenger Sajid Hussain died on-the-spot. In another incident, one Ghulam Nabi and his brother Abdur Rehman were shot dead and his brother Muhammad Akram was injured by their rivals Shahbaz, etc. to avenge an old enmity in Chak No 506/2 Mamonkanjan.
In yet another incident, a pregnant woman Zubaida Bibi and her 3-year-old daughter Amina were tortured to death reportedly by her spouse Ramzan over a domestic dispute in Chak No 95-JB whereas Nadeem Sharif, a resident of Samanabad, Riaz Ramzan, a resident of Chiniot, were killed in separate road accidents.
Meanwhile, an alleged accused of gambling Muhammad Anwar (35), a resident of Qadriyya Chowk, died after he jumped to ground from a building to escape arrest by Batala Colony police. The police had conducted the raid at a gambling den in Raja Ghulam Rasool Nagar to arrest gamblers.