KHAIRPUR, Feb 14: Eleven people were injured in a clash which started over a petty issue in village Hashim Gopang taluka Thari Mirwah on Wednesday.

The children of the village were on their way to home after attending the school, when a quarrel started between two groups of students in which students of primary classes snatched books from each other and tore them.

When they reached their village, their elders came out of their houses and started fighting. They used sticks, hatchets and fired in the air.

As a result of the clash Jan Mohammad, Allah Jurio, Wazir, Mir Mohammad, Audo Khan, Ali Madad, Ali Dino, Kamal, Amir Ali, Budhel and others were injured, and admitted to a local hospital.

The police have arrested some 20 persons.

PRISONERS: The prisoners of central jail, Khairpur, complained that most of the prisoners were suffering from skin disease at the jail.

They told this to the newsmen and their relatives on the occasion of their court hearing here on Thursday.

They said prisoners were not provided proper food and drinking water. The disease was affecting the prisoners because there was no proper health care facility at the jail hospital, they added.

The prisoners further told that if immediate steps were not taken, the disease would further spread and it would be difficult for the prisoners to live in the jail.

The relatives of the prisoners have appealed to the home secretary to provide proper treatment and meals to the prisoners.