Encroachers open fire at ETPB staff amid anti-encroachment drive in Nankana Sahib

According to details, encroachers set fire to an office of ETPB and several of its vehicles. The armed men also opened fire at the vehicle of the board’s chairman Sadiq-ul-Farooq leaving two security guards injured.

Police officers and ETPB members had to seek refuge inside a Sikh Gurdwara during the firing incident.

Farooq said that the staff was attacked by the encroachers when they were trying to regain possession of the ETPB land from illegal occupation of the land grabbers. He blamed Punjab Assembly member Zulqarnain Dogar for the attack on PTSB staff.

Siddiq-ul-Farooq called Dogar, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA from Nankana Sahab, as the patron of the land mafia. He vowed to break the back of the groups involved in land grabbing.

The goons snatched the camera and a mobile phone of ARY News cameraman Tahir Mehmood during the incident.