July 30, 2007	Monday	Rajab 14, 1428

UBAURO, July 29: Sixteen people were kidnapped, 14 killed and four girls raped in district Ghotki during the past two months, a survey report said on Friday.

According to the survey, 24 tribal clashes took place in different areas of the district during the past two months in which sophisticated weapons, including rocket launchers, were used.

In forest area where a tribal feud was going on between Sharr and Sailro clans, two houses caught fire as rocket landed on them injuring a woman, Allah Dini Sailro.

While a group of armed men abducted a nine-year-old child Asghar Sharr. Two people including an SHO and a policeman were killed in the clashes.

Armed men tried to abduct Hazooran from village Din Mohammad Malik near Ubauro but her relatives put up a resistance. In the scuffle the woman received injuries.

A woman, Ameeran, lodged a rape complain against his father-in-law at Ubauro Police Station.

Dacoits kidnapped Abdur Razaq and Rauf from village Amir Bux Kolachi near Mirpur Mathelo.—PPI