SIALKOT City News

Woman, daughter fall prey to enmity

From Our Correspondent

SIALKOT: A woman and her daughter were shot dead over an old enmity at Sherwani Colony in Naikapura police limits on Thursday.

According to the police, unidentified people, whose number was yet to be ascertained, entered the house of Altaf Hussain Bhatti and gunned down his wife Shabnam Bibi (40) and daughter Fatima Ali (19). The assailants managed to flee from the spot. Police have shifted the bodies to a hospital for autopsy and started investigation.

Shabnam was sister-in-law of local journalist Iftikhar Hussain Bhatti. Meanwhile, talking to newsmen, Iftikhar Bhatti said that his elder brother Ajmal Hussain Bhatti, a French national, had also been gunned down allegedly by his brothers-in-law over an old enmity in 2014. He termed the double murder a move of the accused party to stop them from perusing the murder case of their brother.