SUKKUR, April 19: At least 15 people were killed and many others injured in four tribal clashes in Balochistan and Sindh on Friday night and Saturday.
In Dera Murad Jamali, five persons, including four of a family, were killed and one was injured when unidentified gunmen barged into the house of Nawab Khan Domki and opened indiscriminate fire.
Nawab Khan’s four children — Rajab Ali, 15; Sabzal, 8; Gohar Khatoon, 6; and Zehra Bibi, 4 — and a guest, Ali Murad, were killed.
The injured, Damsaz Ali Talani Domki, was taken to the Chandka Medical Hospital, Larkana.
The attack is said to be the result of an enmity between Bugti and Domki tribes.
Four persons of the Mahar and Jatoi tribes were killed and several others injured in a clash between the two tribes in the Budho village, some 20km off here, on Saturday.
The clash followed kidnapping of a Mahar tribesman, Muharram Ali, from his farm in the Budho village by some Jatoi tribesmen.
Muharram Mahar, Gul Sher Jatoi, Mohammad Hassan Jatoi and another man of the Jatoi tribe were killed in the clash. The names of the injured could not be ascertained.
Tension prevailed in the area after the incident and the tribes have entrenched against each other.
Three persons were killed and two others injured in an armed clash between two groups of the Atrani Jatoi tribe in the Nabeerabad village, Shikarpur district, on Saturday evening.
Sodho, Hashim and Gul Mohammad were killed and Imdad and Babul were injured in the clash which is said to be a result of a land dispute.
Two Jagirini tribesmen were shot dead and two others injured near the Dilshair Jatoi village of Kingri Taluka on Saturday in an attack by a group of Narejo tribesmen, reports Mansoor Mirani in Khairpur.
The Narejos opened fire on the Jagiranis who were harvesting wheat.
Pathan Jagirani and Bhai Khan Jagirani were killed and Ghulam Shabbir Jagirani and a passerby, Bakht Ali Janwari, sustained bullet injuries. The injured were taken to a hospital in Pir-jo-Goth.
Ghulam Akbar, son of Ghulam Nabi Narejo, was killed in the Baradi Jatoi area reportedly in a revenge attack by Jagirani tribesmen.
