LARKANA: Three men, among them two brothers, were gunned down in two separate incidents in Shahdadkot and Ratodero on Tuesday.

In Shahdadkot town, motorcycle-riding criminals shot dead Abdul Rehman Mengal, 32, and Mohammad Shahbaz, 30, in an ambush in Kamboh locality when they were going to work in grain market. The killers sped away after committing the crime.

In Ratodero, unidentified armed men shot at and killed Arbailo Soomro, 40, working at a hand-pump shop near a meat market and escaped on a motorcycle.

Gulab Soomro, brother of the victim, said that his family had no enmity with anyone. As soon as his brother opened his shop the unknown assailants fired at and killed him.

Mother of two slain children also dies

Ms Qaim Khatoon Brohi, who had suffered critical gunshot wounds in an attack on her family in Haidar Brohi village late on Sunday night, died during treatment on Tuesday.

The victim’s son Nadeem Brohi, 40, and daughter Fazilla Brohi, 23, had died in the house attack by the family’s rivals, according to relatives.

Ali Mohammad Brohi, brother of late Qaim Khatoon, registered an FIR at Bakrani police station against eight suspects out of whom police arrested Dost Mohammad Borhi and Aijaz Brohi and claimed to have recovered two pistols from their possession.

Police officials claimed the arms were used in the crime, and said a separate case had been lodged against the suspects under Sindh Arms Act over possession of unlicensed arms.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2024