Three brothers killed

Published September 16, 2002

DADU, Sept 15: An old feud claimed the lives of three brothers in Yaqoob Panhwar village in Sehwan taluka some 70 kilometres away from here on Sunday.

Three armed men of the Machhi tribe barged into the house of Jan Muhammad and killed three brothers — Sohib, Mahyar and Saifal, sons of Patasho Machhi — while holding all the family members hostage at gun point. The culprits later escaped.

The DPO Dadu, Akbar Ali Bhangwar, rushed to the scene of the crime. The corpses were later brought to the taluka hospital in Sehwan for autopsy. A case has been registered against Ghulam Rasool, Saffar and Ghulam Hyder.

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