Prominent lawyer and former President Supreme Court Bar Association Abdul Latif Afridi was killed when another lawyer opened fire on him in the High Court Bar Room of Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday. Police arrested the killer on the spot red handed. The dead body has been shifted to the hospital for autopsy. Abdul Latif Afridi received six bullets as he was sitting in the bar room and was being rushed to Lady Reading Hospital when he breathed his last on the way.

The attacker who claimed to be a lawyer himself was arrested from the crime scene. The litigants started to leave after the administration shut down Peshawar High Court’s gates and barred entry of people. The dead body was sent to Afridi’s ancestral village in an ambulance, the spokes.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP