JACOBABAD, May 24: Two men were killed and six injured in a clash between two groups of farmers over irrigation water sharing in Sher Khan village in the Thul area on Thursday.

The rival groups exchanged fire as a result Akbar Ali Khoso and Nooruddin Banglani were killed and Mehboob Khoso, Mir Hassan Khoso, Ismail Khoso, Mohammad Qasim Jat, Bahram Banglani and Majeed Tanwri were injured.

The bodies and those injured were taken to Thul hospital. No FIR was lodged till the filing of this report.

In another similar clash, seven people were injured, two of them critically, in Sawan Leghari village in the Tando Mohammad Khan area on Thursday, reports PPI.

Mohammad, Saleem, Mehar, Mukhtiar, Asif, Ali Khan and Jahan Khan, all Leghari by caste, were taken to a Tando Mohammad Khan hospital. From there Ali Khan and Mukhtiar were referred to a Hyderabad hospital due to their precarious condition.

Both groups have lodged cases against each other.

There is no water shortage in Sindh these days but its uneven distribution by irrigation department is causing shortage at tail-end of small canals.

The shortage, sometimes, leads to deadly clashes over water sharing.