LAHORE – Sahiwal CTD encounter victim Khalil’s son Umair on Friday madeshocking revelations while recording his statement to the JointInvestigation Team (JIT).
Reportedly, Umair, the first-person narrative of the incident, told the JITthat officers had opened fire at their car three times and refuted thespeculation that any shots were fired from their side or any motorcycle.
The child in his statement said that he, along with his parents and sistersincluding Areeba, Muniba and Hadia, left home and when they reached nearQadirabad, someone shot at their car from behind.
“After the shot was fired, the car bumped into a sidewalk and came to halt.Later, two police vehicles stopped by the car and masked officers openedfire at their car again in which ‘uncle’ Zeeshan was killed,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said that his father appealed to the policemen not to killthem.
“You can take everything from us but spare our lives,” Khalil askedofficers, as stated by Umair.
Later, one of the officers spoke to someone on a phone.
“As the call ended, he asked officers to kill them,” he added.
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Then the police opened fire for the second time in which his parents andAreeba were killed.
During firing, his father had hidden Muniba in his lap, while his motherhid him and Hadia.
“Later, the policemen took me and my sisters out of the car and thensprayed the car with bullets”, he said.
Afterwards, the statement reads, the policemen took away the children in apolice vehicle and threw them in the middle of nowhere.
“Someone picked up from there and dropped us at a fuel station; from there,policemen took us to a hospital”, the statement added.
Umair termed police’s narration of the story as a “lie” that firing by“terrorists” on a motorcycle killed them.
