February 2, 2003	Sunday	Ziqa’ad 29, 1423

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LARKANA, Feb 1: The persons, who are believed to have killed the 22-year-old health worker, Sajida Leghari, on Thursday, are reported to have moved out of their houses, it was learnt on good authority on Saturday.

The deceased was the resident of the Jamal Khan Leghari village.

The investigation wing of the Mirokhan police, which initiated a probe into the murder, failed to make any headway in this regard and no arrests have been made so far.

Ali Bakhsh, father of the deceased, while talking to this correspondent, said that his daughter had been killed on the incitement of someone, and Fazal Mohammed Leghari, who had divorced her, had been used as a tool.

The villagers told this correspondent that the deceased was attacked from the back while she was returning from duty during the anti-polio campaign, along with two other girls, including one of her cousins.

They said that the deceased’s cousin had tried to catch hold of Fazal, who forcibly injected two lethal injections into her back and arm, but he managed to escape.

Two lady health volunteers (LHVs), on the condition of anonymity, told this correspondent in the Taluka Hospital, Mirokhan, on Saturday also confirmed that the deceased LHV was attacked by her former husband, who injected two injections into her back and arm.

The father of the deceased LHV, villagers and even the police in Mirokhan, confirmed that she had been injected with some poisonous substance, which had caused her death.

The medico-legal officer said that the deceased bore two visible puncture marks on both of her arms in the “deltoid, biceps and triceps” muscles, adding that her relatives were accusing Fazal Mohammed, her former husband, of injecting some poisonous material by way of a muscular injection.