SUKKUR, Jan 25: Two police constables were arrested by the Ghotki police on Tuesday night in a case about killing of a man in the Mir Daim Mirbahar village. A police party had raided the house of Munawwar Mirbahar where a wedding party was in progress. It is alleged that the police party was attacked by people in the house. Police opened fire in which Munawwar Mirbahar was killed and Shaheen, Nabi Bux and Khan Mohammad were injured.
Later, an FIR was registered at the Ghotki police station against nine people. They included ASI Abdul Hakeem Langah and police constables Dildar Kalhoro, Rasool Bux Kalhoro, Mohammad Aslam Khoharo, Mohammad Ayub Tagar, Pir Bux Seelro, Intizar Hussain Korai, Saeed and Hidayat Kalhoro. Police sources said two of the accused policemen, Pir Bux and Intizar Hussain, had been arrested.
KILLED: Two persons were killed and 16 others, including women, injured in a road accident at the National Highway in the Kori Wah area of the Ghotki district on early Wednesday morning.
A passenger wagon was going to Bahawal Nagar from Shahdad Pur when it rammed into a truck going in the same direction.
As a result, Nasir Ahmed and Fayaz Ahmed Qureshi were killed on the spot while 16 people were injured.
The injured included Haider Ali, Mohammad Hussain, Rashid, Iqbal, Haider Shah, Adil, Mohammad Shahid, Muneer, Memona, Kashif, Aamna, Saeeda Mai, Nathoo, Farid, Ameeran.
They were shifted to the Mirpur Mathelo hospital.
Police arrested the truck driver, Iqbal, and cleaner, Saleem, and impounded the truck.
PROTEST: Activists of the Sunni Tehrik took out a protest procession and staged a sit-in outside the press club here on Tuesday against the murder of Nazir Ahmad Banglani in Shams Abad on Monday evening.
Led by Noor Ahmad Qasmi, Musharraf Mehmood Qadri and others, the procession after marching through main thoroughfares of the city reached the clock tower where the participants held a demonstration.
Later, the protesters marched towards the press club and staged a sit-in for two hours there.
They demanded arrest of the killers.
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