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SUKKUR, June 10: Eleven persons were injured in an armed clash between two groups of the Burro clan over a minor dispute in the Khanan Buriro village, near Kotdiji, Khairpur, on Thursday morning.
The injured included Ghulam Raza Buriro, Muneer Ahmad, Mohammad Fazil, Arbab, Arz Mohammad, Ghulam Kazim, Yasin, Sikandar Khwaja, Hakima and Ghulam Qamber Buriro.
KIDNAPPED: A boy was kidnapped and his brother was injured by armed persons in the Abad police station jurisdiction here on Wednesday night. Shahbaz Pathan and his brother, Irfan Pathan, were taken away by the armed persons towards the Airport Road in a jeep.
The outlaws opened fire on Shahbaz when he jumped out of the vehicle, injuring him. They, however, took away Irfan. The Abad police took the injured to the Sukkur Civil Hospital. Imdad Pathan, father of the boys, lodged an FIR against the unidentified accused.
WOMAN KILLED: A 40-year-old woman was shot dead allegedly by her three sons in Rohri on Thursday. The woman had married Rahimullah Dayo, a resident of Rahim Yar Khan, seven years after the death of her first husband which infuriated her sons. On Thursday when she came to Rohri to see her sons, they allegedly killed her.
LOOTED: Armed bandits hijacked a Jacobabad-bound passenger wagon coming from Sukkur near Lakhi on Wednesday night. They later deprived passengers of cash and other valuables in the kutcha area and fled.
WORKSHOP: A consultant psychiatrist of the Civil Hospital of Sukkur, Dr Kartar Lal, has said that 450 million people in the world are suffering from mental or behavioural disorders.
He was speaking at a teachers' training workshop on mental health, organized by the department of psychiatry of the civil hospital and the Federal Project for Integration of Mental Health into Primary Healthcare at the Sardar Ghulam Mohammad Mahar Medical College here the other day.
Dr Lal said that out 10 main causes of disability, four were different mental disorders. The EDO, health, Dr Mohammad Ashfaq Piracha, said that teachers could play an important role in creating awareness among students about mental healthcare. The civil surgeon of the hospital, Dr Khalid Shaikh, said that Sukkur had been selected as the pilot district for working in mental health in Sindh.
