SUKKUR: Two men gunned down

Published February 15, 2005

SUKKUR, Feb 14: Two men were gunned down in separate incidents in a village in the Garhi Yasin area and Kandhkot town on Sunday night.

The first incident took place in the Naushahro Abro village in the Garhi Yasin police jurisdiction, Shikarpur district, in which Ghulam Rasool Brohi, 50, was shot dead by unidentified attackers.

Nadir Ali, the son of the deceased, has lodged a case against four unidentified accused with the Garhi Yasin police. The other incident took place on the Shikarpur road in Kandhkot where one Imdad Mohammadani was shot at and seriously injured by unidentified assailants at his shop. He was shifted to the taluka hospital but could not survive.

On receiving information, armed members of the Mohammadani tribe and police chased the killers but failed to capture them. The reason behind the killing is said to be an old enmity.

ACCIDENT: A minor girl was crushed to death by a speedy passenger coach on the National Highway, near Qazi Ahmed, on Sunday. Shazia, 7, daughter of Yasin, was crossing the highway, which passes through the town, a speedy coach, coming from Karachi and on way to Punjab, ran her over as a result she was killed on the spot.

The Qazi Ahmed police have arrested coach driver Iqbal Awan and registered a case. Meanwhile, the body of an unidentified woman was recovered from the Jam Wah in the Kandhkot area by police on Sunday. The body was shifted to the taluka hospital Kandhkot but no one turned up to claim it. The reason for death of the woman is said to be head injuries.

BURIED: Bodies of three Jatoi tribesmen, who were killed by the unknown armed persons on Sunday, were buried in a graveyard in Roidad Tart village near Chak on Monday. Quwwat Ali Jatoi, a relative of the deceased, had taken away the bodies from the Chak police station on Sunday night.

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