Lawyer shot dead in Lahore

LAHORE: Armed men shot dead a lawyer in Lahore’s Faisal Town area on Friday.

A report said that 45-year-old Mian Faisal Shehzad was sitting outside his real estate office near Faisal Town police station when a motorcycle stopped just close to him.

The moment it stopped, one of the riders sitting on it opened fire at the lawyer due to which he died on the spot. The assailants, however, fled from the spot. His body was shifted to a local hospital for medico legal formalities and later handed over to the heirs. Tense prevailed at the site of the incident.