SUKKUR: A man was arrested for killing his wife and another man in a village near RD-186 Nara Canal on Sunday on suspicion of their maintaining an extra-marital affair.

Officials at the Januji police station of Salehpat taluka said that Pathan Shambhani shot dead his wife, Gul Bano Shambhani, 35, at his house and then shot dead Zulfiqar Shambhani, a resident of the same village. The police said the two bodies were taken to the Rohri Taluka Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

Later, the bodies were handed over to the heirs, they added.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2014

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