SUKKAR Dec, 22: Five persons, including two women were killed in Thul, Garhi Khairo, Gambat and Pano Aqil areas on Saturday.

Tayab Banglani with the connivance of his brothers severely beat his wife, Mst Hani, injuring her seriously and fled. She was taken to Thul hospital but died on her way to hospital.

Talib Banglani, the deceased’s brother, lodged an FIR against Tyab Banglani and his four brothers Abdul Khaliq, Rashid, Gohram and Gul Banglani.

The cause of killing is said to be a domestic dispute.

In Lakhmir Katoher, a village, near Garhi Khairo, one Bande Ali Katoher gunned down his sister-in-law and a man Ayub Langa on the pretext of Karo Kari and fled.

On a tip police arrested Bande Ali Katoher and seized the shot gun, used in the double murder. Both the bodies were handed over to the relatives after postmortem.

Meanwhile, two people died and six others injured in two separate road accidents in Gambat and Pano Aqil areas.

A truck No. KLT-3440 coming from Sukkur hit motorcyclists Muhammad Sadiq Chakrani and Ghulam Akber, seriously injuring them, on the national highway near village Gahalpur near Gambat.

The injured were being shifted to Taluka hospital, when, Muhammad Sadiq Chakrani died on way to hospital. Police arrested the truck driver.

Another accident occured on Sultanpur Pano Aqil road where a passenger bus while saving a cyclist turned over, seriously injuring the cyclist, Mukhtar Ahmed, and other six passengers including Rahib Ali, Nawaz Khan, Naeem Ahmed, Gul Muhammad and Baksh.

The cyclist, Mukhtar Ahmed, died on his way to hospital.

TEACHERS DEMO: The Sindh Teachers Alliance took out a protest procession and held a sit-in in front of the office of the Nazim on Saturday.