PMT blast leaves two dead

Published March 9, 2007

LARKANA, March 8: Two persons died and four others received injuries in Shahdadkot town as a result of explosion in a Poll Mounted Transformer (PMT) in Shaikh mohalla late on Wednesday night.

Those killed were Sanghar Selro, 8, a student of class three, and a vendor, Ramesh Lal, 60.

Those injured were identified as Abdul Wahab Brohi, Imam Bakhsh Selro, Afshan and Saima Mastoi who were later admitted to the Taluka Hospital Shahdadkot.

A bomb disposal squad, headed by Mohammed Tahir Awan, arrived here on Thursday from Sukkur and inspected the site of the incident.

He told journalists that the explosion was the result of a blast that occurred in a geyser, which also damaged the PMT and the adjacent walls collapsed due to pressure of sound.

The power supply to a city area that went off with the explosion, could not be restored till Thursday.

PETITION: A man whose four family members were slain in Aug 2006 has filed a petition in Sindh High Court’s Larkana Circuit Bench against the Larkana police for their failure to arrest the killers and abettors.

Muhammed Yusuf Narejo’s four family members including parents, sister and a 15-day baby were killed. His father, a police constable, and mother had refused to change their evidence in the murder case of Imdad Narejo who was killed in their home in 2001, said the petitioner’s advocate Habibullah G. Ghouri.

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