Drug mafia, dacoits shoot at and injure 6 persons in separate incidents.

RAWALPINDI -- At least three persons suffered fatal bullet injuries after a drug lord along with armed gang: men opened indiscriminate firing apparently to stop him from selling narcotics in the area, informed sources on Thursday. The firing incident took place in Mohala Safadarabad, the precincts of Police Station Ratta Amral.

The injured persons were shifted to hospital for medical treatment where they were identified as Gul Nazar, Waheed Yousaf and Atif Mughal. After committing the crime, the drug lord Sajjad alias Sajjo and his gang men including Rizwan Mughal and Shiker alias Pepe fled from the scene. Ratta Amral police registered a case against the fleeing accused under attempted murder charges.

A raid by police on the drug den of Sajjad alias Sajjo also led to recovery of narcotics, they said. According to sources, the drug lord Sajjad alias Sajjo along with his gang was involved in drug trafficking in various areas controlled by police stations Pirwadhai and Ratta Amral. They said that the locals alerted police several times about the exploding dens of narcotics in the said areas but no action was taken against the drug peddlers. The drug peddlers launched a brazen armed attack on Gul Nazar and others when they tried to stop them from spoiling lives of youth by selling drugs in the areas including in Safdarabad.

Resultantly, three persons were wounded in firing by the drug mafia. Sources said that the armed men kept firing for almost an hour and then fled from the scene. They said that a heavy contingent of police rushed to the crime scene and collected...