Gujranwala man kills sister over mobile phone

GUJRANWALA: A man allegedly killed his sister after an altercation over the use of a mobile phone in Punjab’s Gujranwala district on Sunday. 

According to police, the incident happened in Liaquat Colony. Both the siblings had an altercation over the use of a smartphone. Enraged, the man later murdered his sister.

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He fled the crime scene, the police said, adding efforts are afoot to arrest him at the earliest. A first information report (FIR) of the murder has been registered.

On August 7, a man shot dead his wife over asking for a cellphone in Attock, Punjab. The incident took place in Attock’s area of Pindi Sultani, where a man opened fire over his wife and killed her on the spot when she asked him to hand her his cellphone.

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After killing the wife, the man, whose identification was not revealed by the police, had also injured himself.