An official of the District Jail Mandi Bahauddin breathed his last in Lahore’s Mayo Hospital after he was shot by the firing of robbers on offering resistance during a robbery incident in the Miana Gondal police area of Mandi Bahauddin around a week ago.
Reports said Hafiz Shahid Mahmood, an official of prisons police, who was serving at the Mandi Bahauddin jail, was going back to his home after performing his duty on his motorcycle on June 25. He was intercepted by unidentified robbers who tried to snatch his motorcycle and other valuables from him at gunpoint.
Shahid offered resistance and the robbers opened fire at him, leaving him critically injured. He was shifted to hospital where doctors referred him to the Mayo Hospital, Lahore. Police registered the case against unidentified suspects.
The deceased was laid to rest in Chak 31 Mandi Bahauddin on Sunday evening.
