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KHAIRPUR, Nov 11: Over 800 employees, including the sanitary staff of the Khairpur Taluka Council, observed a strike here on Thursday on the third consecutive day in protest against non-payment of their salary for the month of October and Eid advance.
The office staff of the taluka council boycotted duty and the sanitary staff did not clean roads and streets.
GAMBLERS HELD: The Kotdiji and Ahmedpur police have arrested 10 gamblers in two different raids and registered two cases against 22 accused persons on Thursday.
SHOT DEAD: A man was killed while he was sitting in a tea-shop in Kandhera town on Thursday.
Haji Phulpoto, 40, a resident of Danwari village, was shot dead by three armed men
The motive behind the killing was said to be an old enmity.
The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Khairpur.
No case has been registered with the Ahmedpur police till the filing of this report.
HIJACKED: A group of armed men deprived Sahib Odho, Mulan Talib, Hazar Khan and Khadim of a pick-up loaded with bananas, on the Pir-Jo-Goth road near Piryaloi on Tuesday.
Pickup owner Sahib Odho lodged an FIR with the Babarloi police.
