DADU, Oct 29: The medical officer of civil hospital issued on Saturday the post-mortem report of the prison guard, late Gul Mohammad Jatoi, who was shot dead a week ago.

MO Dr Niaz Ahmed Kalhoro said in his report that the deceased had been shot once in the head. The bullet passed through the skull and caused instant death, the report said.

Inspector of crime branch Hyderabad, Sardar Mengal, who is investigating the policeman’s murder told reporters on Sunday that the case had been registered against 11 people out of whom five were identified and six unidentified.

The crime branch was grilling the under arrest Taluka Nazim Naban Khan Lund, Sharif Lund and Mohammad Siddique Mallah who had disclosed the names of four other accused, he said.

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