SUKKUR: Unknown attackers killed a man with strikes of clubs and axes at a wheat field within the limits of Nara taluka in Khairpur district late on Saturday night.

Villagers said the unidentified assailants suddenly came upon Hakim Bhambhro who was keeping watch over his wheat field. They struck him with clubs and axes and left him dead before managing to escape, they said.

They said the brutal murder had spread terror in the area. The area police shifted the body to hospital for postmortem examination, they said.

Five injured in brawl

Members of Jagirani and Jatoi clans attacked each other with firearms after having a brawl over a slight collision between a motorcycle and a rickshaw in Sangi village late on Saturday evening.

The two groups fired shots at each other, wounding five persons on both sides, before police intervened and brought the situation under control, said witnesses.

They said the wounded were shifted to civil hospital where doctors provided them medical aid.

Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2024

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