SUKKUR, June 2: The Inspector-General, Sindh Police, Syed Kamal Shah, said here on Monday that three accused of the Kashmor carnage, in which 14 people had been killed on March 31, were killed in the limits of the Risaldar police station last week and efforts were going on to arrest the remaining.

He said this while addressing a press conference at the Circuit House Sukkur on Monday.

He avoided to comment on the actual cause of the carnage. All he said was simply that the outlaws wanted to challenge the police who had established a checkpost on the border of Sindh and Punjab to control crime.

He said three of the accused — Shah Ghulam Bugti, Ghulam Nabi alias Nazoo Marhato and Bazar Hotkani Bugti — were killed in the encounter with the area police.

He admitted that the rate of crime in Jacobabad was quite alarming.

Mr Shah claimed that the police was fulfilling its professional and legal obligations and was doing a satisfactory job in Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur, Khairpur and other districts.

He said that kidnappings and highway robberies were affecting the law and order situation in Jacobabad district, and added that “we would not shift our responsibilities to somebody else”.—Correspondent