Polling stopped in different areas of Sindh

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Polling has been stopped at three polling stations of Thull due to a clash between voters of competing candidates on NA-209 and PS-15. Two people identified as Ahmed Bux and Ali Muhammad Khoso were injured.

Four people were also injured at a polling station in Feroze Nandwani and three others were injured at polling station Sanaullah Bijarani of Thull district Jacobabad.

Unidentified men opened fire on the vehicle of former Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister Pehlaj Mall in the area of Achar Buriro polling station Salehpat, Sukkur. As a result the vehicle was damaged and polling was stopped at the polling station.

At least twenty people were injured in total across different polling stations in Sukkur.

In Karampur district, Kashmore an armed clash took place between two groups in which eight people were injured after which one man, Muhammad Saleh Bijarani,

succumbed to injuries. Polling has been stopped and the army has reached the spot.

In Khairpur, armed clash took place between different parties at a polling station after which polling was stopped there.

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