One alleged attacker had been shot dead and a second was taken into police custody, an international news agency quoted former prime minister Imran Khan’s senior aide Rauf Hassan as claiming.

Chaotic scenes broke out during the Azadi March after gunshots were fired at Imran Khan’s container in Wazirabad, with the PTI chief shot in the leg. At least one person was killed while nine others, including Senator Faisal Javed and PTI Punjab leader Ahmed Chattha, were injured in the attack.

The police immediately arrested one of the assailants from the spot, whose confessional video statement has also been released, in which he said that he was alone and had no companion.

“This was an attempt to kill him, to assassinate him,” Hasan told AFP, adding that one alleged attacker had been shot dead and a second was taken into police custody.

He told the agency that it was not clear who shot the attacker first. The assailant, whom the police arrested, was on the right side of the container and fired the burst from there, immediately after which Imran Khan and others on the container sat down.

Another video of the same incident is also being shared on social media with claims that a guard fired a shot from the container as well.

In the video, the sound of the burst was immediately followed by two more gunshots.

So far there have been reports of one person being killed in this incident, who has been identified as Muazzam Gondal.

An eyewitness has claimed that Muazzam was shot dead by security personnel.

According to Muazzam’s family, he was a supporter of PTI.