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KHAIRPUR, Nov 14: Two persons were electrocuted while two others sustained injuries when live electric cables fell on them in Gulsher Solangi village, Kot Diji taluka on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Abdul Rasheed Solangi and Soan Khatoon.
Those injured namely Younus, 8, and Sabir, were admitted to the Rural Health Centre, Ranipur.
The enraged villagers placed the bodies at the Kumb-Nawabshah roundabout on the National Highway and staged a sit-in for an hour.
They demanded registration of a case against officials of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company as the incident took place due to their negligence.
CASE REGISTERED: The Faiz Gunj police have registered a case against five Shar tribesmen on the complaint of a watchman of irrigation residential plots on Thursday.
The five — Ghulam Abbas, Meer Hassan, Kaleemullah, Hamid and Mohammad Bux — have been alleged of occupying the old official residences of irrigation officials at Faiz Gunj and stealing articles from there.
Earlier, the Faiz Gunj police along with irrigation officials had the illegally occupied plots evacuated.
The irrigation officials took possession of the residential plots.
