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SUKKUR, Nov 16: DCO Ghotki in a raid seized some 50 trucks loaded with cotton on Sindh and Punjab border on Friday.
Ghotki district Nazim has imposed a ban on cotton export to Punjab under section 144.
The growers of the area said they were getting higher cotton price in Punjab therefore they preferred to send cotton to Punjab where minimum rate is Rs1000 per 40kg while in Sindh it is Rs800 per 40kg.
Sources said a landlord of the area sent his cotton to Punjab when the DCO with police confiscated and impounded about 50 trucks and trolleys from the border area.
WOMEN KILLED: Two women were killed by their husbands in different parts of Ghotki district on Friday.
Fifteen year old Mitthi wife of Usman Gadani was poisoned to death by her husband and his brother in Ghotki, which sparked a clash between the relatives of the couple in which two persons were injured.
Police arrested Usman Gadani and his brother Rahib Gadani.
Mitthi was married with Usman some six month back.
According to the brother of the deceased she was poisoned by her husband who tried to bury her in the local graveyard.
When this information reached the relatives of Mitthi, they rushed to the graveyard and tried to snatch her body.
Both the parties attacked each other with knives. As a result Khuda Bux Gadani and Ramzan Gadani were injured.
Police took the body into custody and arrested Usman Gadani and Rahib Gadani. Investigation is on.
In another incident, a married woman Ladhan Bhayo was axed to death by her husband Hoat Bhayo on the pretext of Karo-kari in Mirpur Mathelo on Friday.
Police arrested Hoat Bhayo.
Meanwhile a villager Arsla Khan Loher on Friday lodged FIR against his son-in-law Dhani Bux and his accomplices on the charge of killing his daughter Rashidan in village Juma Khan Korkani.
Ahmedpur police registered the case and are conducting raids to arrest the culprits.
