SUKKUR, March 13: Four Sundrani Bugti tribesmen were killed and two women were injured when at least a hundred Lundkani Bugti tribesmen attacked two of their villages, Nawab Din and Madad Ali, in Jacobabad District, about 125 kms from Sukkur, in the wee hours of Wednesday.

The Lundkani Bugti tribesmen used rocket launchers and lobbed hand grenades as a result of which several houses in both the villages were set on fire. They opened indiscriminate fire as a result of which Constable Lal Sundrani, Hidayatullah Sundrani, Inayatullah Sundrani (both brothers), and Bhutta Sundrani were killed on the spot while two women, Mst Garan and Baqa Mohammed, were seriously injured.

Eyewitnesses said that the attackers took away their tractors and other valuables from the villages.

Some policemen of the Bahoo Khoso police station told this correspondent on the telephone that the Sundrani Bugti tribesmen also retaliated by opening fire as a result of which some Lundkani Bugti tribesmen were also injured.

A villager told this correspondent on the telephone that the Lundkani Bugti tribesmen entered their villages around 7:00am and remained there till 11:00am but not a single policeman turned up during the four hours they were there to kill tribesmen and plunder their villages, and added that, in fact, the 30 policemen who were on duty fled on seeing the Lundkanis.