SUKKUR, Sept 19: Seven suspects were on Thursday booked in an honour killing case lodged at the Dadloi police station of Panu Aqil town a day earlier.

The suspects belong to the Bullo community, the police said. They said that complainant Niamat Khatoon had nominated Raziq Dino, Ghous Bukhsh, Mohammad Bukhsh, Mohammad Alam, Mumtaz, Badshah and Jan Mohammad in the FIR (261/2013) of the murder of her brother, Ali Mardan Bullo.

She alleged that the suspects killed him in Lemon Bullo village near Panu Aqil on Wednesday on suspicion of having relations with a woman of the same community.

Police carried raids on different places in Dost Mohammad Bullo, Bagro Bullo and Shahbazi Bullo villages but none of the suspects could be arrested till Thursday evening.

Road accident

Five schoolchildren aged eight to 15 were wounded in a head-on collision between a truck and a motorcycle on the National Highway within the jurisdiction of the Baiji police station of Panu Aqil on Thursday.

The victims, residents of Haji Khan Chachar village, were going to school on the two-wheeler.

They were taken to the Panu Aqil Taluka Hospital and then referred to the Sukkur Civil Hospital for further treatment.

The truck driver was arrested and his vehicle impounded but no case was registered.