LARKANA, March 5: The Dokri taluka council representatives held a demonstration in Moenjodaro on Thursday to draw attention of the authorities to dilapidated state of the pre-historic site.

Led by Taluka Nazim Aijaz Junejo and including union council Nazims and councillors and social workers, the protesters also staged a sit-in, suspending vehicular traffic on the Airport Road for some time.

They raised slogans against failure of the archaeology department to save the invaluable structures which had been damaged by salinity and last year's rain.

They said that the history lovers had been protesting over theft of Moenjodaro seals and artifacts when they heard that the relics were decaying to the extent that a portion of a wall in the first street of Moenjodaro had crumbled. They urged the government to immediately allocate funds for preservation of the site.

KILLED: Three unidentified persons shot at and killed Syed Umar Shah, 34, near Mukhtiakar office here on Thursday and escaped.