THE ELECTION VIOLENCE<\/p>\n
Polling was suspended in Sheikhupura\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
The fist fight and firing incident took place in the Government Primary School, Nizampura reportedly on the issue of setting up a polling camp.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
According to an ECP official, voting resumed as extra police personnel have been deployed to maintian peace.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0police\u00a0station.<\/p>\n