SHIKARPUR, May 19: A woman and a man were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in Abdul Sattar Thaheem village near Garhi Yasin on Saturday.

Nazir Thaheem shot dead his cousin Aasiya and a villager, Owais Brohi, over the suspicion that they had illicit relations.

The police took the bodies to hospital and, after post-mortem, handed them over to relatives.

No FIR was registered till late Saturday evening.

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