LARKANA, July 8: A man was killed and three others suffered injuries when a gang of bandits attacked the Bachal Veesar village near Banguldero, some 18 kilometres from here late on Sunday night.PPP MNA Anwar Bhutto who witnessed the attack told Dawn that the bandits who were six in number attacked the village with rockets to take revenge and killed Ali Bakhsh Veesar, 40. Three others were injured.

He said that the villagers had been receiving threats since the day they had nabbed a criminal a few years ago and handed him over to police who later escaped from Mirokhan police station.

—Correspondent

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