LAHORE: A watchman was found murdered at his workplace on Raiwind Road on Thursday.

The Chuhng police said 60-year-old Muhammad Ameer, a resident of Bhubatiyan village, was a watchman at a plot situated near Dubai Chowk for the last 15 years.Preliminary police investigation showed that the incident took place when the victim was asleep and some unidentified person(s) came there to attack him. The victim succumbed to head wound.

His son Muhammad Latif told Dawn that his father had no enmity. The police registered a murder case against unidentified suspects and shifted the body to morgue for autopsy.

NO ARREST: The police have failed to arrest any of the six people who allegedly shot dead a man over a matrimonial dispute on Wednesday evening.

The police said a resident of Minhala married a girl who had eloped with him some time ago. The man was working in his fields when his two brothers-in-law and their four accomplices reached there and opened fire killing him on the spot.

The police registered a murder case and shifted the body to morgue for autopsy.

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