LARKANA, Nov 19: The Larkana police on Wednesday claimed the alleged killers of two schoolchildren, whose bodies were found early this week, had confessed to the crime.

Ghulam Mustafa Khokhar, cousin of the boys, was arrested from his house along with Mumtaz Ali Khokhar.

The police claimed that the arrested men have confessed to have killed the boys, Mujahid Hussain and Lakhmir.

The in charge, Crime Investigation Cell, inspector Ahmad Hussain Abro, said Ghulam Mustafa and Mumtaz Ali, a policeman in the district intelligence branch, Larkana, had kidnapped the boys in the Waleed village on Nov 13 and kept them at a public call office near Shaikh Zayed Colony. The kidnappers bashed the boys’ heads with an iron rod, killing them.

Ghulam Mustafa told journalists at the CIC on Wednesday that he was not involved in the killings but his cousin, Mumtaz Ali, had killed the boys.

He said Bashir, Mujahid’s father, and his brother, Ghulam Shabir, had been forcing Gulsher, father of Mumtaz, to hand over a piece of land to them which was their joint property.

He said Gulsher refused and sent his wife, Kashmiran, to Bashir and Ghulam Shabir, for demanding her share from them as she was their sister.

He said the brothers beaten the woman that enraged Mumtaz.

However, the Waleed police station have registered an FIR against unidentified persons.