DADU, Oct 3: A complete strike was observed in Sehwan town on Thursday on the call of traders against the murder of a shopkeeper.

All shopping centres, trade centres, and bazaars, including the Shahi Bazaar, Jewellers Bazaar, Rai Bazaar, and Resham Bazaar, remained closed.

A shopkeeper, Basheer Ahmed, had succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on Wednesday after he received serious injuries at the hands of five outlaws two days back.

Activists of various political parties, NGOs, citizens, and traders, led by the president of the Shopkeepers Association, Haji Yar Mohammad Soomro, staged a protest rally.

The protesters, carrying placards and banners, blocked the Indus Highway.

They raised slogans against the in charge, Investigation, Sehwan Sharif, and the SHO, Sehwan Sharif town police station.

Addressing the protesters, Haji Soomro said that the shopkeepers of the area had asked the SHO, Sehwan Sharif town police station, SIP Javed Ahmed Lakhair, to go after the robbers who had injured Bashir Ahmed but in vain.

They said that the injured shopkeeper died in the hospital and his killers were yet to be arrested.

They accused the SHO of being in complicity with the outlaws.

They elucidated that armed robberies and incidents of car- and motorcycle-snatching were increasing day by day.

They appealed to the additional inspector general, Police, and other senior officials to take action against the policemen concerned.

BANDITS: Eight unidentified armed bandits stole the buffaloes of a landlord, Munir Ahmed Panwhar, in the Abdul Rahim-jo-Kooh village on Thursday.