SUKKUR, Feb 20: A man was killed on the pretext of Karo-kari by armed men on Wednesday in Mohib Jatoi village within the remit of the Abad police station near Jacobabad.

Niaz Ahmed Jatoi was sitting in a restaurant when he was attacked.

Later, the armed attackers went to the house of another man, Ali Gohar aka Kheral Jatoi, and opened fire on his wife. They left her wounded.

The local police shifted the body and the wounded woman to the Civil Hospital Jacobabad. Her condition was said to be stable, as a bullet had hit her in the leg.

The victim’s body was handed over to the relatives after a post-mortem examination.

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