TOBA TEK SINGH: The bodies of a man and a woman fished out from Jhang branch canal on Friday have been identified as a couple that had contracted love marriage a few years back.

According to Thekriwala police, two bodies, one of a male and the other of afemale, were recovered from the canal near Gojra city in Nawan Lahore police station precincts. Both were shot in the head.

The deceased were identified as 25-year-old Aqsa and 30-year-old Shakil, both residents of Chak 78-GB, Faisalabad, who had contracted court marriage a few years ago without the consent of the woman`s parents, thepolice said.

Both were employees of the health department, the police added.

Following their love marriage, the couple had started living at Chak 71-JB, from where brothers and other relatives of Aqsa kidnapped them.

The kidnappers after killing the couple, threw the bodies into the canal, the police said.