[DAWN] A woman and a five-year-old girl were killed during firing in the air and more than 140 people were injured in the garrison city on Friday as people celebrated basant despite the ban on kite flying.Kaleem Ahmed, a resident of Bara Kahu said he had come to Sadiqabad with his family to see his ailing mother in-law. He said his five-year-old daughter Urwa was playing with other children on the roof of the house when she was hit in the head by a stray bullet.
“We did not realise she had been hit by a bullet and we took her to the hospital thinking she was unconscious because she had fallen down. Doctors at the Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) told us she was killed by a bullet in her head,” he told Dawn.
He said he had declined to register a case.
A woman, Shamim, the daughter of Latif, was killed after being hit by a stray bullet in the limits of the Waris Khan police station, which led to the suspension of the station house officer.