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KHAIRPUR, Feb 19: Several growers of Mirwah and Faiz Ganj talukas were baton-charged by the police on Tuesday when they were protesting against shortage of water at Jalalani regulator.
Carrying dried wheat plants, the growers of the two talukas staged a demonstration and blocked Jalalani-Bozdar Wada link road.
The protesters closed the doors of the regulators and raised slogans against the irrigation officials.
According to the growers, the irrigation officials were providing more water than the share to influential landlords while the growers were even deprived of their due share of water.
Meanwhile, the Awam Dost Panel Nazims of Faiz Ganj taluka and councillors held a protest meeting against the shortage of water.
The taluka Nazim and councillors alleged that the shortage was due to the negligence and inefficiency of the irrigation department officials who were providing water only to big landlords and influential persons of the area.
They deplored that due to the continuous shortage of water, several families of the growers had been compelled to migrate to other areas.
THEFTS: Over two dozen theft incidents were reported in Khairpur taluka and border town Lakha road on Monday night.
Some unknown thieves broke the locks of shops belonging to Abid Mang, Jawed Mang, Hussain Mang, Sadiq and others at Mang bus stop in the jurisdiction of the Ahmedpur police station. They took away the articles of the shops, including cash and cloth.
In village Aateri, some unknown thieves entered the house of Dittal Maitalo and took away seven goats.
In Lakha road, some unknown thieves broke the locks of a medical store and three other shops and took away valuables.
KILLED: Qadeer Burdi, 12, son of Shah Mohammad Burdi, was crushed to death under the wheels of a Sukkur-bound bus (PO-477) here on Monday evening.
The Priyaloi police have arrested the bus driver, Arshad Hussain.
INJURED: A motorcyclist, Fateh Ali Mallah, was injured in an attack by four armed men when he was on his way to village Dilawar Khuhro from Razidero here on Monday night.
The armed men escaped as a police party reached there.
SUICIDE: Ms Arbab Khatoon, 40, committed suicide by hanging herself here on Friday in village Babar Wada near Kumb taluka, Kot Diji.
The dead body was handed over to her relative after post-mortem.
