LARKANA, Oct 28: A man and his son were gunned down at a roadside teashop in Dittal Abro village within the remit of the Qambar police station on Monday.

Imdad Ali Bhutto, 45, and his son, Ali Gohar Bhutto, residents of Sharif Bhutto village, were about to leave the teashop after having tea there when unknown assailants riding a car came and opened indiscriminate fire at them, police said.

They said that the assailants carried out the attack swiftly and sped away immediately after committing the crime.

They continued to fire into the air while fleeing the scene, they added.

Mashooque Bhutto, the brother of Imdad Bhutto, claimed that the killers belonged to the Odho clan and seemed to have taken revenge for the murder of Zulfikar Odho.

He said that Mr Odho was killed in the same village some time back and his body was thrown into the victims’ paddy field. The clan assumed that the man had been killed by the Bhuttos, he said.

Fish farm contractor shot dead

A fish farm contractor was shot dead in Paliyo Gopang village, police said on Monday.

The incident took place within the jurisdiction of the Dhmaraho police station late on Sunday night.

The police said that the victim, Muhammad Sharif Gopang, 45, was deaf and dumb. He lived at the fish farm where he was shot dead.

The police said that no footprints were found as the farm was surrounded by a vast water sheet.

The body was handed over to the victim’s relatives after a post-mortem examination.

Boy drowns in manhole

An eight-year-old boy, Saqib Kandhro, drowned in a drain in Siddique Colony here on Monday.

The boy fell in the main sewerage line as the cover of a manhole had developed holes.

The boy was recovered from the main drain in an unconscious condition and was immediately shifted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital, where he died.

Residents alleged that several complaints had been lodged with the municipal administration and the Northern Sindh Urban Services Corporation about holes in the drain’s cover but to no avail.

Two kidnapped

Two persons, Jawed Ahmed Lakho, 22, and Shakeel Ahmed Lakho, 23, were kidnapped in Bhawand Lakho village while guarding their paddy crop late on Sunday night.

Family members of the victims, cousins by relation, went after the kidnappers but lost their footprints beyond Bahar Chandio village within the remit of the Qambar police station.