Ferozwala(Urdu Times): THE ELECTION VIOLENCE | Polling was suspended in Sheikhupura’s PP-139 Ferozwala constituency
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THE ELECTION VIOLENCE
Polling was suspended in Sheikhupura’s PP-139 Ferozwala constituency after three people suffered injuries when workers of the Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) exchanged fire.
The fist fight and firing incident took place in the Government Primary School, Nizampura reportedly on the issue of setting up a polling camp.
As firing began, women voters started running in panic to save their lives. The Ferozwala police remained a silent spectator as the activists continued to throw punches at each other.
According to an ECP official, voting resumed as extra police personnel have been deployed to maintian peace.
Meanwhile, in a polling station set up in Lahore College in NA-119 constitency, PTI and PML-N workers clashed with each other. Police personnel deputed there pacified the mob.
Similar incidents were reported from two polling stations of the PP-149 constituency where the PTI and IPP workers confronted each other. It is reported that the Mughalpura police took an IPP worker into custody and shifted him to police station.
