Overview

• Crime Control Department officials said gunmen in two cars targeted the convoy to free Teefi Butt from custody.
• An exchange of fire left Butt with gunshot wounds and he later died, while the attackers escaped.
• The CCD team was transporting him by road toward Lahore when the ambush occurred near Sadiqabad.
• Butt had been returned from Dubai to Pakistan a day earlier after a court appearance there and a reported agreement to face cases.
• Lahore Police had previously obtained an Interpol red warrant for his arrest following his flight from Pakistan.