SUKKUR: Three people, including two women, were killed when gunmen barged into a house in Gadani Phatak (railway crossing) near the Sukkur railway station within the remit of the C-Section police station in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said.

They added that the gunmen barged into the house of “hardened criminal of the past” Sadiq Gadani when the house occupants were asleep.

The attackers opened indiscriminate fire and killed 60-year-old Sadiq Gadani, his 55-year-old wife, Khatoon Gadani, and her sister Semi Gadani, 40, and fled.

Later, the police took the bodies to the civil hospital Sukkur for post-mortem, after which the bodies were handed over to their relatives.

The police said an armed clash had taken place two years ago over a karo-kari dispute between the groups of Sadiq Gadani and his opponent Yousuf Gadani.

The group of Sadiq Gadani by levelling allegation on the group of Yousuf Gadani killed young Naveed Gadani, the police claimed.

The police said that Sunday’s killings might be a result of that incident.

Sadiq Gadani’s brother Sharif Gadani was also a “hardened criminal and involved in different heinous crimes”.

Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2018