ISLAMABAD
Two Pakistanis were killed in a clash between bootleggers in Al Sajja Industrial Area of Sharjah, UAE, Khaleej Times reported on Saturday.
The deceased, aged 25 and 33 years old, died instantly after being hit on their heads with solid and sharp tools on Thursday.
Five others also suffered serious injuries in the clash, reminding one of the deadly turf wars by rival groups of bootleggers in the past years.
As in the infamous case of 2009 in which 17 Indians were sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani worker and later pardoned, this incident also happened in one of the labour accommodation clusters in the area.
The police received a call from other workers about a group fight. The officers who reached the scene found two bodies lying in a pool of blood and five seriously injured people. The injured were shifted to Al Kuwaiti and Al Qasimi hospitals and the bodies were taken to the forensic laboratory for investigation.
The police said the fight was between two gangs of bootleggers over the area where they operated.
The police have detained many workers, who allegedly took part in the fight, for interrogation and to determine who were involved in the murder of the two workers and injuries to others.
In January 2009, a Pakistani worker named Nazir Khan was killed and three of his compatriots were injured in a fight between two groups in the same area.
Seventeen Indians were later awarded death penalty for the crime, but were released after the family of the deceased pardoned them after getting the blood money.
