SHIKARPUR, Dec 2: Police on Saturday arrested three accused in the murder case of four women of Abdoo village in Shikarpur district. Police conducted raids on different places in the district and arrested Ghulam Qadir Mahar, Nazir Mahar and Javed Mahar.

Four women, including three sisters, Shahzadi, wife of Ramzan Mahar, Safia, wife of Bashir Mahar, and Miss Naseem Mahar, and their sister-in-law Naseema, wife of Gul Bahar Mahar, were gunned down on the pretext of karo-kari by their relatives in the village some days back.

The FIR was registered in the case at the Chak police.

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