JACOBABAD, May 20: Three brothers, Shah Dino, Shahmir and Malook Bhangwar, were killed in the jurisdiction of the A-section police station, Kandhkot, on Friday. The deceased brothers had gone to the house of Balaj Bhangwar for the recovery of loan where after an exchange of hot words, Balaj opened fire with Kalashnikov resultantly all the three, Shah Dino, Shahmir and Malook Bhangwar died instantly. The accused fled from the scene.

The bodies were shifted to the hospital for autopsy.

No FIR was lodged till the filing of the report.

RAID: The circle officer of the Anti-corruption Establishment, Zarwar Hussain, along with judicial magistrate Qaiser Ali raided the office of the domicile branch of the District Officer (DO) and arrested the clerk, in charge of domicile, Ahmed Ali Koto, on Friday for accepting bribe from police constable Nazeer Ahmed Soomro. The clerk was caught red-handed while receiving bribe.

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