September 23, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 22, 1429

LARKANA, Sept 22: A police SHO and four constables, son of a tribal chief, and four other people were killed when tribesmen attacked a police post in Nurpur in the district of Qambar-Shahdadkot on Monday, according to District Police Officer Parvez Umrani.

The post was attacked by about 100 tribesmen, who also torched a police van.

Sardar Salah Shahlyani alleged that the policemen, who belonged to the Brohi clan, had killed his son Akbar. He said that his three body guards, Liaquat Maikan, Nazeer Leghari and Naseer Jamali, were killed and Baggan Jamali and Fida Shaikh, were injured.

“I am taking their bodies to my village Garhi Khairo,” he said. He also accused the Brohis of having killed his other son, Sikandar, in Quetta two months ago.

He said that when people like him and his sons were not safe what security could be there for the common man.

The policemen who were killed have been identified as SHO Mohbat Rind of the Imam Bakhsh Jamali police station, head constable Manthar Gopang and constables Mureed Metlo, Sajjad Chandio and Ghulam Shabir Ahmed Brohi.

The injured driver of the police van and SHO of the Shahdadkot police station Ghulam Ali Leghari were admitted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital.

Sources said that the attackers had dumped the bodies of the SHO and other policemen into a water channel and torched the police vehicle, because of which a policeman, Shabir Ahmed Brohi, was burnt alive, adding that faces of other policemen bore burn marks.

The police post was recently set up to stop the infiltration of criminals into Sindh from Blaochistan, the sources said.