SUKKUR: A man and two women were killed while a 12-year-old boy was injured over an old dispute of karo-kari in Wali Mohammad Dahani village in Punhoon Bhatti taluka Garhi Khairo of Jacobabad district on Wednesday.

According to reports, armed men on a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire on Gul Hassan aka Karihar Jakhrani, his wife Waadi and a woman from the neighbourhood, Girah Naz, wife of Khan Mohammad Dahani. As a result of the firing, all three of them were killed and Girah Naz’s son Barkat Ali Dahani was injured. The assailants fled from the scene after aerial firing.

After the incident, police reached the spot and shifted the bodies and the boy to the Garhi Khairo hospital but he was later shifted to Larkana due to his critical condition.

Post-mortem examination of Gul Hassan was performed at Garhi Khairo hospital but bodies of both women were shifted to Jacobabad Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities after which they were handed over to relatives.

Jacobabad SSP Sarfaraz Nawaz Shaikh told the media that after being threatened with karo-kari, Gul Hassan was shifted from Kandhkot to village Wali Mohammad Dahani where he got shelter with Khan Mohammad Dahani.

He said that different police teams were formed for assailants’ arrest.

No case was registered in the Punhoon Bhatti police station over the incident till filing of this report.

Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2017

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