SUKKUR: Boy shots mother dead

Published September 21, 2006

SUKKUR, Sept 20: A boy shot dead his mother and a man early on Wednesday morning in Pinyo Khorkhani village in the jurisdiction of Piryaloi police station near Sukkur.

Reports reaching here said that Mafad Ali Khorkhani suspected that his mother Mumtaz Khatoon, 39, wife of Dost Mohammad Khorkhani, had illicit relations with Niaz Ahmed Khorkhani.

The boy shot dead his mother and then went to Niaz Ahmed’s house, called him out and shot him dead too, said the reports.—Correspondent

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