Three shot dead

Published April 26, 2007

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 25: Two brothers and their employee were killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on them near Sago village on Wednesday morning.

The two brothers, Najaf Ali Shah and Syed Ali Shah, and their employee Azizullah were going to their fields from Dera Ismail Khan to Sago village.

The deceased were brothers of advocate Gohar Ali Zaidi.

Soon after the news of killing spread, a large number of people gathered at the district headquarters hospital and condemned cold-blooded murder of the three men.

All medical stores and shops in the area were closed after the people held demonstration in the hospital.

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