LARKANA, Oct 30: Around sixty to seventy armed men from Bugti tribe stormed Bugti colony police station late on Monday night in taluka Kandhkot, Jacobabad district, and killed one cop, injured two, kidnapped four and took away a huge quantity of arms and ammunition.
The armed tribesmen attacked the police station around 3 am on Tuesday and with the showers of bullet killed a cop Muhktair Ahmed Abro and seriously injured two others identified as Gullan Khan Mangi and Bashir Ahmed Jakhrani.
The reports also say that they kidnapped four policemen — Abdul Razzak, Abdul Jabbar Khoso, Imdad Ali Bhatti and Sohino Khan Khoso.
However after covering certain distance they released them near Sundarni village and escaped. The injured cops have been admitted in Chandka Medical College Teaching Hospital in precarious condition.
The attackers also had taken away 28 SMGs,11 G-3 rifles one brain gun, one 7.62 rifle, one wireless set, one walki talki set and 750 rounds of SMG with them. The sources said they had come from Balochistan and fled there after committing crime.
SINDH IGP: Talking to Dawn on Tuesday the Inspector General Police, Sindh, Syed Kamal Shah, said on telephone that the DSP concerned had been given three days time to produce results and nab the culprits else he should be ready to face suspension.
He said that the activities of a bunch of Bugti criminals would be checked and soon they would be cut to size.
He said a detailed plan had been formulated and soon you would see the results. The IGP, however, avoided to give the details of the proposed plan which, he said would be detrimental if exposed, at this stage for the strategy being adopted by the police.
It was said that Bugti tribe and police grew against each other after the incident of September 17,2001 when the FC men opened fire on a tractor at RD 109 where Ali Murad son of Mir Bakhsh was killed in the jurisdiction of Bkhshapur police station.
Again on September 25 this year people from Bugti tribe attacked a police picket in Sui and kidnapped two cops— Maqbool and Muhammed Shahban.
They were released when police arrested Mahmid Bugti. Subsequently on September, 29, 2001 one police constable Nek Muhammed was killed in an armed encounter between Bugti tribesmen and police at RD 109.
These series of incidents was just a background that had tensed the situation in the area, the source told Dawn on Tuesday.
The DIG police Larkana Sardar Fayyaz Ahmed Khan Leghari had rushed to the spot, police sources said here on Tuesday.
TWO KILLED: Some unidentified armed men late on Monday night sneaked into the house of Haji Khan Khoso in village Haji Gul Muhammed Brohi in the jurisdiction of Wagan police station and shot dead two person and injured one.
After breaking into the house, the assailants without sparing time pumped bullets resulting into the spontaneous death of Haji Khan Khoso and his wife Ms Sajida while a minor girl received injuries whose name could not be known immediately.
Police sources said that the double murder was the outcome of an old matrimonial dispute. Wagan police were investigating.