Four death row prisoners executed across Punjab

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KARACHI: As many as four death row prisoners were executed across Punjab earlier on Tuesday morning.

According to reports, two condemned assassins, Abid Maqsood and Sanaullah were hanged at gallows in Sialkot’s District Jail. Both criminals took life of a 12-year girl after a sexual assault in 1997.

In Faisalabad also, a convicted killer, Muhammed Abid, breathed his last at the gallows in  Cenral Jail. The criminal killed Yasin over a longstanding feud in 1998.

In Sahiwal, a death row prisoner, Nawaz alias Kaka has been executed in Central Jail early this morning. The convict killed a man over a trifling dispute with him in 1995.