Two members of the “Gang Shah” were killed in an exchange of fire with the Department of Counter-Terrorism (CTD) in Chung, a few days after a case against them in Raiwind for the murder of two brothers in a dispute involving RS30, officials announced on Thursday.
Police said the suspects, identified as Hasnain and Omar, had taken refuge in the Chung Manowal region.
A CTD team attacked the hiding place, during which the suspects would have opened fire. Police said the two men were killed when police opened up reprisal fires. Four of their accomplices managed to escape and a research operation was launched for their arrest, officials said.
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The officials said that the deceased was wanted in several cases, including murder, murder attempt and extortion. They would also have published threats to CTD officers on social networks.
Wajid and his brother Rashid, both in their twenties, went to Raiwind, Lahore by bus before planning to go home to their village. They headed for a group of fruit sellers to buy bananas near Rohi Nala.
The bananas are of rs130 a dozen, but the brothers had only one note of one hundred rupees and a note of five thousand rupees. They asked the fruit seller to give them changes for the wider note. But when he said he didn’t get it, the brothers asked him to reduce their number of bananas. A fight broke out.
Wajid and Rashid were seriously beaten and the fruit seller called for the safeguard of certain friends, who played a cricket nearby.
A video of the fight showed Rashid skipping his brother on his lap on the ground, blood flowing on his head, when a young man loads him and hits him over his head with a cricket bat.
Wajid died on the spot and Rashid was taken to the hospital. But he did not survive the head injury and died on Monday. His funeral took place on the same day.
Police had arrested a man identified as a taimur as the striker in the cricket and a FIR was registered for intentional murder by the city police station Raiwind under article 302 of the Pakistani penal code.
