LAHORE: Three people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed on Sunday in Jallo Village, Batapur in a gunfight between rival groups.Police said that Safdar JuttÂ’s group had had developed differences with Mushtaq ButtÂ’s over a property dispute in 1986. In the following years, both groups had clashed several times and four people had been killed. Police said that on Sunday, both groups faced off in the Jallo village main bazaar, and after a heated exchange, members of JuttÂ’s group opened fire on the rival gang. Mushtaq ButtÂ’s son Shehzada Butt, nephew Ata and a 12-year-old bystander Zuhaib Jehangir were shot and killed. The assailants then immediately fled the scene.
Following the attack, members of the Butt group proceeded to the houses of their rivals, which became the scene of a gunfight between the two gangs.
A Batapur police team then reached the scene and managed to restore order in the area. They then arrested Safdar Jutt, Shahid Javed, Irfan Akhtar, Imtiaz, Aziz and Shamriaz of the Jutt group and also recovered a large quantity of weapons and bullets. The bodies were moved to the city mortuary for autopsy and although police have begun investigating the incident, a first information report was not filed till the filing of this report