Two members of the “Shah band” were killed in an exchange of fire with Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Chung, days after a case was registered against them in Raiwind about the killing of two brothers in a dispute involving the RS30, officials said on Thursday.
Police said the suspects identified as Hasnain and Omar had taken refuge in the Manowal area of Chung.
A CTD team attacked on a hiding place where the suspects allegedly opened fire. Police said both men were killed when police opened the retention fire. Four of their accomplices managed to escape, and a search operation has been launched for their arrest, officials said.
Read: RS4.970 in change for bananas becomes mortal in Raiwind
Officials said the deceased was in demand in several cases, including murders, murder attempts and extortion. They had also allegedly issued threats to CTD officers on social media.
Wajid and his brother Rashid, both in their twenties, had traveled to Raiwind, Lahore by bus, before planning to go home to their village. They went against a cluster of fruit sellers to buy bananas near Rohi Nala.
Bananas are RS130 a dozen, but the brothers had only one hundred rupee note and a five thousand-peppe note. They asked the fruit seller to give them a change for the bigger note. But when he said he did not have it, the brothers asked him to reduce their number of bananas. A fight broke out.
Wajid and Rashid were poorly beaten, and the fruit salesman called for back-up from some friends who played cricket nearby.
A video of the fight showed that Rashid is cradling his brother in his lap on the ground where blood flows down his head when a young man accuses against him and hits him over his head with a cricket bat.
Wajid died at the scene and Rashid was taken to the hospital. But he did not survive the head injury and died on Monday. His funeral was held the same day.
Police had arrested a man identified as Taimur as the cricket-bat-performing striker, and a four was registered for intentional murder of the city’s police station Raiwind in accordance with section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
