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Three injured in firing outside college

By Our Correspondent 2023-05-03
NAROWAL: Three persons, including a student, were injured when unidentified persons opened fire outside the the Government Poly Technical College, Sialkot.

Witnesses say some students were standing outside the college, when unknown armed motorcyclists opened fire.

As a result, a second-year student, Muhammad Hamza and two passersby identified as Nawaz and Zaid, were seriously injured. The attackers fled the scene after firing.

The injured were immediately shifted to the Civil Hospital Sialkot.

On being informed of the incident, a team of Kotwali police station reached the spot and collected evidence.

District Police Officer Mohammad Hasan Iqbal took strict notice of the incident and formed raiding teams to arrestthe attackers.Police spokesperson Khurram Shehzad, said the firing took place as a result of a dispute between two student groups.

BODIES FOUND: Narowal police recovered dead bodies of two armed men from the fields near Chak Lal village in Zafarwal Tehsil.

The bodies were later identified as Shahid of Bhalla Pind village and Malik of Talwandi Bhindran village, of Narowal district, says police spokesperson Aitzaz Bashir.

He says on being informed of the bodies by the locals a police team reached the spot and moved these to the Zafarwal Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for the postmortem examination and necessarylegalproceedings.

A local, Ashraf, says the bodies had bulletproof jackets, while modern automatic weapons were lying nearby, adding he did not hear any gunshots.

District Police Officer Rana Tahir Rehman Khan has formed a team to probe into the incident.