GUJRAT: A man, in connivance with his accomplices, gunned down his two brothers and as many cousins over a property dispute in the Iqbal Town locality of Gujranwala Cantonment police area on Monday.

Shahid and his 15 accomplices barged into the house of his brothers, Ahmed and Hamid, where a marriage function was held On Sunday night. The intruders went into a room where they shot dead both the brothers as well as their cousins Azhar and Amanat. The assailants fled the scene soon after the incident.

Cantt police and Rescue 1122 officials reached the scene and shifted the bodies to Gujranwala District Headquarters Hospital for autopsy.

Police have registered the case against nine nominated and six unidentified suspects on the report of Kausar Bano, an aunt of the deceased.

Initial police investigation revealed Shahid had hired the shooters to eliminate his brothers over ownership of the same house where the incident occurred.

BRUTAL MURDER: The body of a 12-year-old boy, who had been missing for four days, was found in Sheikh Rajada village within the Gujranwala Saddar police jurisdiction on Monday.

According to reports, the police registered a kidnap case on Friday and detained three suspects who later confessed to killing the boy after raping him. They dumped the body in the village fields.

On Monday, the police recovered the body based on the suspects` identification.

The boy`s family and locals staged a protest, accusingthe suspects ofhavingissued death threats to the family prior to the incident.-Correspondent