LARKANA, Aug 29: A local leader of Pakistan Muslim League (N), Deedar Ghanghro, was shot dead in Ratodero on Friday.

Deeadar was going to Larkana with policeman Nazar Mohammad Veesar and two other people when his car was stopped by some armed men at Bappar Mohalla on the outskirts of Ratodero. The attackers opened fire and injured him. While he was being shifted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana he died.

The murder was the outcome of an old enmity, sources said.

Roshan Ali, an uncle of the deceased, in an FIR lodged with the Ratodero police, has nominated Mohammad Ashraf, Muqeem, Samandar, Naveed, Mehrab, Gulzar and Akhtiar as the accused.

The complainant claimed that two year ago Abdul Wahab Ghanghro had tried to kidnap his nephew Niaz Ali. Abdul Wahab was arrested and later escaped from the Ratodero police lock-up but killed in an ensuing police encounter, he claimed.

The men accused in the FIR thought that the deceased (Deedar Ghanghro) was involved in the murder of Abdul Wahab and they took revenge of it on Friday, he claimed.

Local leaders of the PML (N) have condemned the murder of Deedar Ghanghro and called for the early arrest of the killers.