LARKANA, July 18: Two people were killed and a woman suffered injuries in separate incidents in the jurisdictions of Bakrani and Wagan police stations on Wednesday. Akbar Ali Abro, 20, was found dead in fields in the Mian Ishaque Khoharo village in the jurisdiction of Bakrani police station. The boy was collecting food from different houses to feed his family when he was kidnapped, reports said.

Ali Ahmed Abro, father of the deceased, registered an FIR at the Bakrani police station against three unknown people. He said he had had no enmity with anybody. In another incident five people sneaked into the house of Abdul Nabi Chandio in Ali Ashabo village in the limits of Wagan police station and shot him dead. They injured his wife, Ms Hanifan, when she tried to save her husband.

Amir Ali Chandio, brother of the deceased, filed an FIR at the Wagan police station against the accused. He insisted that his brother was innocent but the sources said that the murder was the result of an old enmity.

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