LARKANA: Two killed over Karo-kari

Published October 29, 2003

LARKANA, Oct 28: Four armed men killed two people, identified as Baboo Bhatti and Nawaban, wife of Khamiso Bhatti, on the pretext of Karo-kari in the Kot Lal Bakhsh Mahisar village in the limits of the Sujawal police station.

They killed both with axes and daggers.

Police said that Baboo Bhatti was a resident of Garih Khairo town and had come here to work as a labourer.

Police claimed that two of the killers, Sahib and Mashooque, had been arrested.

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