SUKKUR: Two women shot dead

Published March 9, 2004

SUKKUR, March 8: Two women were killed in an exchange of firing between two groups of the Bugti clan on the Sindh-Balochistan border in the jurisdiction of Jafarabad police station on Monday.

The firing took place over a dispute of Karo-kari. Khalil Bugti shot dead his wife, Zulekha, 23, and after that launched an armed attack over the house of Warno Bugti who according to him, was eloped with his wife.

The relatives of Warno Bugti returned the fire and the firing continued for an hour as a result another woman, Zarina Bugti, was killed. Both the groups fled the village upon police arrival.

FOUND: The police recovered a girl, Shahida Dogar, a resident of Mandi Bahauddin district Punjab on Sunday. She told the police that she had come from Machi Bhindo village near Ghouspur but actually was a resident of Mandi Bahauddin.

The girl said her father Yasin Dogar who was a drug addict had sold her to a woman of Karachi when she was six-year-old. She said the woman sold her to Mangio Bijarani, a resident of Machi Bhindo village, when she was 13-year-old and got Rs40,000.

She said when Mangio Bijarani went to jail following a clash with Chachar clan, a woman Rehmat Khatoon who happened to be sister of her husband asked her to escape from the village and go to your parents.

After that she reached the Shikarpur railway station last night where the railway police recovered her. The girl was sent to Jacobabad where she would be produced in the court.

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