UBAURO, June 27: A man killed his wife and sister on the pretext of karo-kari in a village near here on Wednesday. According to reports received here, Shahu Bugti gunned down his wife Khanzadi and sister Umair Khatoon and injured a young man on the pretext of karo-kari in Dring Moldi-Wali village in the jurisdiction of the Machiko police. The accused fled after committing the crime.

The relatives of the deceased did not lodge a complaint with the police and took the bodies to Balochistan, saying that they would settle the matter according to their tribal custom.

Karo-kari is rampant in Sindh where, according to reports compiled by human rights bodies, around 250 people, most of them women, fall prey to the medieval tradition every year.—PPI