SUKKUR, July 24: A man shot dead his married sister on the pretext of karo-kari in the village of Darya Khan Magsi near Ghotki on Wednesday.

The suspect was identified as Nadeem Magsi and the victim as Kalsoom, 35, wife of Jawed Magsi.

The B-Section police took the body to the Ghotki Civil Hospital and after a post-mortem handed it over to the relatives.—BoC

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