SUKKUR, May 11: Nasrullah Misrani, the son of a dacoit, Dosu Misrani, gunned down his wife, Amina, his seven-year old son, Saleem, and his wife’s alleged paramour, Ghulam Hyder Misrani Jatoi, on the pretext of Karo-kari in the vicinity of the Shah Belo forest on Sunday morning.

No FIR had been registered till the filing of this report.

Meanwhile, a man, Ali Gohar, was gunned down, his father injured and his sister, Zohra, kidnapped over a matrimonial dispute in the Garhi Chand village, Jacobabad district, on Sunday.

Ali Gohar was not ready to have his sister married off to one of their rivals. So the latter raided their village and opened indiscriminate fire as a result of which Ali was killed on the spot and his father, Ali Hassan, was injured. The attackers then fled taking 17-year-old Zohra with them.

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