Victim of suspected enmity shooting dies in hospital

A man who had been shot and left critically injured by armed assailants over a suspected family feud in Shah Faisal Colony earlier this week succumbed to his injuries on Friday. According to Haji Ishaq, the SHO of Shah Faisal Colony police station, 45-year-old Hassan Shah had been shot some five days ago and had been in the hospital since then.

In their statement to the police, the victim’s family had said that Shah had stepped out of his house to run an errand when unidentified men shot at him at Mardan Chowk. As per the family, they had an ongoing feud with another family and they might have been behind the attack.

A bullet had pierced Shah’s spinal cord and it ultimately proved fatal as he breathed his last in a hospital on Friday. The SHO said that police had registered a case and handed the matter over to the investigation branch.