Over a dozen gunmen due to old enmity opened indiscriminate firing in Sareeaa village in the vicinity of Gujrat killing 10 persons of a family including Akram, two sons Imran and Rizwan, three brothers Fida Hussain, Raja Shahid and Raja Waqar and three persons later succumbed to their injuries. Five passersby were also killed in the firing.
The relatives of the deceased protested over the incident and said they will not bury the dead till police high ups assurance for arrest of the culprits.
The police have arrested two accused of the crime from Azad Kashmir and six dead bodies have been transferred to hospital postmortem.