2 killed over Karo-kari

Published January 9, 2003

JACOBABAD, Jan 8: Five armed men killed two people including a woman on the pretext of Karo-kari on Tuesday.

They first killed a youth, Habibullah Bhangwar, 18, near Kacho Miani, and threw his body in the jungle from where it was recovered and taken to a hospital for an autopsy.

The armed men then killed a woman, Subhan Khatoon, in her house. They hid her body somewhere.

The police registered a case against the five men — Latif, Ghulam Mustafa, Abdul Ghafoor, Darya Khan, and an unidentified person.

The woman’s body had not been recovered till the filing of this report.—BoC