KHAIRPUR: Four dead

Published December 28, 2007

KHAIRPUR, Dec 27: Four National Bank employees who were trapped inside the bank after it was set ablaze by an angry mob, were killed due to suffocation.

Reports said that six people were inside the National Bank’s Khairpur branch when it was set ablaze.

The deceased were identified as Anwer Owaisi, Ali Ahmed Unhar, Dhini Bux Bhouo. The fourth person’s identity could not be ascertained yet.—BoC

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