LARKANA, March 28: Activists of Sunni Tehrik took to streets on Wednesday in protest against the killing of Nisar Ahmed Mirjat, a peshimam at Hussaini mosque, in crossfire a day ago, and observed strike in the city.

They slammed police inaction on maintaining law and order and demanded arrest of killers at the earliest.

The peshimam was killed on Tuesday when two groups of Abro clan traded fire in ‘Baqapur’ locality.

Hafiz Ahmed Ali Abbasi, Moulana Badaruddain Surhiyo and Maulana Ali Sher Jatoi led protestors who were armed with sticks and axes. They chanted slogans against police and burnt tyres at the gate of Jinnahbagh.

The leaders criticised police and said that they were only obeyed the orders of influential people and cared less about the common people.

Criminals had a free hand in the city and its outskirts while the poor and vulnerable people lived in constant fear, they said and added that police’s weaknesses had encouraged criminals and made common people their easy prey.