SANGHAR, Oct 8: A young man and a girl were shot dead by a firing squad near here on Wednesday for they wanted to marry each other against the will of the parents of the girl.

Shazia Hassan Khaskheli, 20, and Mohammad Hassan Solangi, had an affair and wanted to marry each other.

About a week ago they left their houses and on Tuesday, Hassan met the DPO, investigation, Ali Sher Jakhrani, who sits in front of his office daily to settle disputes in a private way.

The DPO asked Hassan to appear before him with the girl the next day.

The relatives of the girl also came to know that the couple would be appearing before the DPO on Wednesday.

They deployed their men in the vicinity of the DPO office.

As the couple was approaching the DPO office in a taxi, they were caught, taken to a Sim drain on Bakhoro road and shot dead by a firing squad.

Their bodies were thrown in the drain from where the Sanghar police recovered and shifted them to the Civil Hospital here for autopsy.

Chhutto Khaskheli, the father of Hassan, has been arrested by the police.