LARKANA, March 8: The Larkana police on Monday arrested five activists of the Sindh People's Students Federation after they were booked in an FIR registered at the Market police station.

Those arrested included Larkana city SPSF president Altaf Abbasi. The complainant, SI Shakeel Ismail Soomro, had nominated Abid Leghari, Abdul Ghani Jatoi, Ali Ahmad Gaad, Javed Shahani, Ashiq Tunio, Malook Jagirani and others in the FIR on Sunday.

The SPSF activists on Sunday had held a demonstration to protest against the killing of People's Party Parliamentarians MPA Abdullah Murad Baloch. Talking to this correspondent by telephone, Larkana PPP president MPA Ayaz Soomro claimed that the police had arrested 62 activists of the party though 22 persons had been nominated in the FIR.

He said even parents and relatives of the activists had been picked up. The PPP leader said the city ASP on being contacted told him that law-enforcement agencies had arrested the party activists. He said they did not know whereabouts of the arrested activists.