LARKANA, Jan 20: A man seriously injured his bride on the first day of their marriage and shot dead her 13-year-old cousin on the pretext of karo-kari near Shahdadkot on Saturday.

The bridegroom Mian Bakhsh alias Meenhoon Khan Chandio fired on his bride Irshad Khatoon and assuming her dead rushed out the home to kill her cousin.

He found Hubdar Chandio, 13, when he was returning from a nearby village and shot him dead.

The bride was admitted to Chandka Medical College Hospital in critical condition.

The bridegroom alleged after he was arrested with murder weapon that his wife’s virginity was not intact. Sanjjar Bhatti police station have filed an FIR on the compliant of Ayaz Chandio, late Hubdar’s brother, against Mian Bakhsh, Sabz Ali and Shah Mohammed.

WOMAN RECOVERED: The district and sessions court of Qambar-Shahdadkot on Saturday allowed Ms Sultana Chandio to live with her parents after police found her in Dewra village on Friday.

Ms Sultana’s mother Sahib Khatoon had moved the court suspecting that her daughter had been killed and the court asked police to locate her.

Qambar police on Friday conducted raid on Dewra village and found her alive. They moved her to a women’s police station in Larkana and on Saturday produced her in court.

She told the court that she was six months pregnant and accused her husband Mohammed Alam Dewro of mentally and physically torturing her after marriage.

The court after hearing her out permitted her to love with her parents.

PHONES DEAD: As many as 400 telephones fell dead on Saturday after unknown thieves stole away parts of underground cable by sawing it off at two different places.

The thieves sawed off underground cable buried 100 feet deep in the Bagi village and in 500 feet deep in the Balhreji village, sources said.

The affected telephones included the number of site office of Mohenjodaro and six villages.