LARKANA, June 17: A school teacher was shot dead and another man was injured in an incident of firing here on Sunday.

Ghulam Sarwar Jagirani, 40, had come to the city from Karim Baksh Jagirani village, not far from here. Gunmen opened fire when he was busy buying grocery at a shop near the old bus terminal.

He was killed on the spot while Aamir Solangi, an employee of the shop, was hit by a bullet. He was taken to the Chandka Medical College Hospital.

Police attributed the murder to a dispute between two groups of people of Jagirani community which had claimed nine lives from both sides.

The killing has caused tension in the village.

BODY FOUND: The body of a teenage student was found in a canal here on Sunday. His father suspects that the boy was killed after having been kidnapped. Initial post-mortem report indicates there were no torture marks on the body.

Local people saw the body and informed police which recovered it. It was identified as that of Shahrukh Kalhoro, 15, a student of class XI.

Talking to journalists, the boy’s father Iqbal Kalhoro said his enemies had kidnapped and killed his son and thrown the body into the canal to conceal the murder “We have 14 acres of agriculture land in Bakrani taluka which is also claimed by Jummo Kalhoro and his relatives. They were seen near our locality, Kennedy Market, on Saturday,” he said.

“We are clueless about the cause of the boy’s death,” a police official said. Medico-legal officer of Chandka Medical College Dr Abdul Raheem Baloch, said in the initial post-mortem report that there was no sign of torture on the body.