SUKKUR, July 20: Eight people of the Dhandhoo branch of the Shambhani tribe were killed when their rivals, belonging to the same tribe, ambushed them between Kandhra and Rohri, on Wednesday morning. Reports said that both the groups were at war over a piece of land, since the last two years, during which 14 people from the either side have been killed.

When the Dhandhoo Shambhani group boarded a wagon for the Session Court Sukkur, for hearing of their case, armed people of the Ghous Bux Shambhani group, hiding near the Deh Ghagroo Malook Shambhani Village, took control of the wagon on gunpoint and opened indiscriminate firing, as a result of which seven people died on the spot, while one Allah Dino, son of Shoukat Ali, was injured, who also succumbed to his injuries in taluka hospital, Rohri.

Those killed included Mehar Khan, son of Haji Khan Shambhani, Maal Khan and Badshah Dino — both sons of Dhandoo Khan — Miro Khan and Subhan Khan, sons of Mohammad Din, Ashiq Ali, son of Shoukat Ali, Allah Jurio, son of Haji Hoat Khan and Allah Dino, who succumbed to injuries in the hospital.

After the tragic incident, hundreds of the Shambhani tribesmen assembled in the area, and forced the police to bring the doctors for post mortem at the site of the incident, and did not allow shifting of the bodies to the hospital.

Two doctors called from the civil hospital, Sukkur, who conducted the post-mortem on the spot and later the relatives took the bodies to their village.

Panic and harassment was prevailing in the area. No FIR has been registered till filling the report.