SUKKUR, Sept 6: A woman and her eight-year-old son died after they were bitten by snake in the Thull taluka of Jacobabad on Friday.

Residents of Khan Mohammad Kundrani village said that they found Moomal Khatoon, 40, and her son, Shahzado, 8, dead in their house and there was evidence that they had fallen victim to snakebite.

In Mubarakpur village of the same taluka, a tractor ran over a man, Imtiaz Mastoi, while he was crossing a road.

The victim died on the spot and the tractor driver fled leaving behind his vehicle.

Police impounded the vehicle. A case was yet to be registered, they said.

Missing girl

Relatives of a 14-year-old girl staged a protest demonstration outside the Thull press club on Friday against police failure to recover her.

The girl’s parents and other relatives said that that the girl was kidnapped in Waris Dino Noonari 18 months ago but police failed to find any clue aout her whereabouts or kidnappers. No sincere efforts had been made to locate or recover the victim, they said, and urged the higher police authorities and the judiciary to look into their grievance and take notice of ‘police inefficiency’.