JACOBABAD: Three shot dead

Published February 7, 2007

JACOBABAD, Feb 6: A woman, her daughter and another man apparently fell victim to revenge-killing in the Kacho Budhi village near Kandhkot on Tuesday.

Reports reaching here said that ten unidentified armed men barged into the Allah Rakhio Korai’s house and opened indiscriminate firing killing Saifal Lolai (guest), Ms Ghulam Fatima, wife of Allah Rakhio and her seven-year-old daughter Karima on the spot.

The bodies were moved to Ghotki hospital for autopsy.

No FIR was lodged till the story was filed. There are reports the triple murder is a result of an old enmity.

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