FAISALABAD: A passer-by was killed on Thursday in a scuffle between some armed men and students of the Government Islamia College. Muhammad Amjad, a witness, said a student was on his way near National Hotel when a man, under the influence of liquor, joked at him. The student swore at the man who slapped him, Amjad said. “The student called his class fellows who chased the man but he went inside the hotel and called his friends.” Amjad said some armed men then arrived there in a while and opened fire killing a passer-by who was identified as Imran, a resident of Gulistan Colony. More college students then arrived there and broke windowpanes of the hotel and nearby shops by pelting them with stones, Amjad said. The clash resulted in a traffic chaos on Faisalabad-Sargodha Road. A large contingent of police rushed to the scene but the armed men had fled by then. The Civil Lines SHO said no one had filed a complaint about the clash.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2015.
0 comments:
Post a Comment