NAWABSHAH, Feb 6: Unknown miscreants set ablaze a passenger bus owned by a People’s Party Parliamentarians MPA on Katchehry Road on Tuesday.

The manager of Super Coach Service told reporters that three unidentified people arrived at their office at 5:15 am, got hold of the staff including watchman, driver and cleaner at gunpoint, sprayed petrol on the bus and set it on fire before fleeing.

The bus (PA-9440) parked in front of the office on Katchehry Road was completely burnt. The coach service is owned by a PPP MPA Chaudhry Tariq Masood Arain.

POLICEMAN KILLED: Three unknown motorcyclists shot dead a policeman near Regal Chowk in Gharibabad on Tuesday.

The policeman identified as Saindad Khaskheli, 35, was posted at the Sakrand police station.

Sources in police said that late Saindad had an old enmity with Guddaro tribesmen. His body was moved to Nawabshah Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.

In another incident, a teenaged boy was killed in an exchange of fire between two rival groups of Khokhars and Sethars in the Mohammad Ali Arain village near Doulatpur on Monday.

Javed Iqbal Arain, 19, suffered serious injuries in the crossfire. He was brought to Nawabshah Medical College Hospital where he died before getting any medical help.

Ghulam Sarwar Arain, father of the deceased, has lodged an FIR under section 302 QSS and 34 PPC blaming two people Naeem and Yasin for his son’s killing.

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