{"id":3578,"date":"2026-10-31T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:03:51","slug":"suspect-in-brides-murder-killed-in-alleged-police-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in bride\u2019s murder killed in alleged police encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The prime suspect in the murder of a bride on her wedding reception day in Gujranwala was killed in an alleged encounter with the Crime Control Department (CCD), according to sources on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sources said that four men riding two motorcycles opened fire on CCD personnel after spotting them on Madu Khalil Road.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects was injured in the exchange of fire, while the other three managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>The injured suspect was identified as Sarfraz, who died while being shifted to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CCD, he was hit by gunfire from his own accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>CCD officials said Sarfraz had fled to Karachi after allegedly killing the bride and later attempted to go into hiding in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>CCD teams pursued him in Sindh and Balochistan before he returned and encountered personnel near Madu Khalil Road.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate operation, the CCD arrested Sarfraz\u2019s accomplice, Hamza, while a woman named Aroob, who was also nominated in the murder case, had already been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Sarfraz allegedly shot dead bride Saba on October 24 near Samanabad Chungi in Gujranwala over her decision to marry someone else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime suspect in the murder of a bride on her wedding reception day in Gujranwala was killed in an alleged encounter with the Crime Control Department (CCD), according to sources on Saturday. The sources said that four men riding two motorcycles opened fire on CCD personnel after spotting them on Madu Khalil Road. One of the suspects was injured in the exchange of fire, while the other three managed to escape. The injured suspect was identified as Sarfraz, who died while being shifted to the hospital. According to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}