An armed clash between two groups of roadside vendors in a Sachal locality has claimed the life of a man while his brother and sister sustained bullet wounds, police said on Saturday."My chapatis! Look what he did to my chapatis!"
They said the two groups in Omer Jogi Goth within the remit of the Sachal cop shoppe became engaged in a brawl over a piece of land where each of them wanted to set up their businesses.
"Die, defiler of chapatis!"
"Die spawn of Iblis!"
The brawl turned violent and they exchanged gunfire.
"A curse on your mustache!"
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
"The firing left 48-year-old Ballu dead.
"Ballu! Look out!"
[SPLAP!]
"Aaaiiieee! I am undone! [SLUMP! TWITCH! Rattle!]"
"Ooooh! That hadda hurt!"
The victim's brother, Jatoi, and sister, Amna Bibi, also sustained bullet wounds," said a Sachal police official.
"Aaaiiieee! My elbow!"
"Aaaiiieee! My 2nd lumbar vertebra!"
"The dear departed was an active member of one of the warring groups. We have placed in long-term storage Yousuf and Javed and an FIR (653/2011) has been lodged under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code against them on the complaint of the victim's son."