SANGHAR, Nov 13: A young boy and a girl were shot dead on the pretext of Karo-kari near the Lundo railway crossing about 70km off here on Thursday.

Ghulam Rasool Zardari, 17, and Shakila Rajput, 15, were killed by Anwar Rajput alias Fauji, the father the girl, with a 12-bore shotgun.

The boy was a student of class-X at the local high school.

The killer surrendered himself before the Lundo police after committing the crime.

Both were killed in a room of a flour mill which was situated adjacent to the house of the girl, belonging to her father.

The bodies were shifted to the taluka hospital, Shahdadpur, for postmortem.

Mashooq Zardari, the brother of the dead boy, told journalists that both the families enjoyed good relations.

He said that they had asked the Rajputs to marry Shakila to Ghulam Rasool.

However, the Rajput family had insisted that the marriage could only take place after the Zardaris agreed to promise that a girl of their family would be married in the other family.