Summary The suspect allegedly barged into the girl's house and opened fire.
LAHORE (Web Desk) – A boy allegedly committed suicide after injuring a girl in a shooting incident in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat area on Saturday, Dunya News reported.
Family members alleged that Muhammad Ashfaq, a resident of Pattoki area, entered their house in Ismail Nagar to meet Nida. He had sent marriage proposal twice but the girl‘s parents refused it.
Earlier today, Ashfaq barged into the house and shot himself before injuring Nida‘s sister in the shooting incident.
Both were shifted to the General Hospital but the boy could not survive.
CNIC recovered from boy‘s possession
According to doctors, a bullet hit the girl‘s right arm. She was keep in the ICU after she underwent an operation.
Police concluded that Ashfaq was shot from behind whereas investigation has also revealed that both Ashfaq and Nida’s sister were shot from two different bullets; Nida’s brother was arrested by police on accounts of suspicion.
Police arrive at the crime scene
The incident comes few days after 19-year-old Maria Sadaqat died after she was tortured and set alight for refusing a marriage proposal from the son of a former colleague in the village of Upper Dewal close to the summer hill resort of Murree, outside the capital Islamabad.
Reportedly, she had been attacked by the principal of the private school where she had formerly worked as a teacher, and by his accomplices after she refused a marriage proposal from his son.
Police said Sadaqat gave a statement before her death naming the principal and four others as her attackers.
Earlier on April 29, a woman believed to be aged between 16-18 was drugged, strangled and her body burnt on the orders of a village jirga (council) in northwest Pakistan, allegedly for helping a friend to elope with her lover.
Hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives in Pakistan each year on the pretext of defending what is seen as family honour.
