LARKANA, May 30: MunirAhmed Sangi, a young photographer of daily Kawish and cameraman of TV channel KTN, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard near the Dodai village on Tuesday. The photographer was shot dead along with Wali Mohammed Abro while shooting scenes of a gun-battle between Unnars and Abros in the Simahee Unnar village on the outskirts of Larkana city on Monday.
A large number of people representing different shades of life attended the funeral.
Local journalists held a protest demonstration in Larkana city and demanded that journalists should be provided security while they performed professional duty.
They demanded that the killers of Mr Sangi should be immediately arrested.
A complete strike was observed in Larkana and Qambar cities in protest against the killing of the photographer.
Mujeebur Rehman Sangi, the uncle of the deceased photographer, lodged an FIR at the Taluka police station against Moolla Madad Unnar, Abdul Karim alias Adlo Unnar and one unidentified.
Nadeem Abro, son of the deceased Wali Mohammed Abro, also registered the FIR against the same accused.
Police detained four suspects in the case whose names could not be ascertained.
The photographer received a bullet in his head and died on the spot.
Rockets and other weapons were freely used in the firing and police did not dare go to the village. The journalists rushed into the firing range and collected the body of Mr Sangi.
They shifted the body to the city and staged a sit-in on the Jinnahbagh road.
They demanded that police officials should be arrested for inaction.
PROBE: Larkana DIG Akhtar Gorchani appointed Qambar-Shahdadkot DPO Sharjel as inquiry officer to probe into the incident of gun battle in which the journalist and a villager were killed.
The DPO was asked to find out either police’s slackness or any other factor had caused death of the photo journalist.
The inquiry will be completed within three days.
DIG Gorchani told Dawn that Irfan Baloch, the SP investigation, Khairpur, would replace the suspended DPO.
DPO Ghulam Rasool Domki, Taluka TPO Mohammed Sadik Odho and two SHOs of the taluka police station Haq Nawaz Lolai, and Dari police station Izhar Lahori were suspended
on the directives of Sindh
Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim.
CONDOLENCE: Various social, political and trade organisations expressed grief over the death of the photographer.
PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, Sindh Minister for Education Dr Hameeda Khuhro, SNF chief Mumtaz Bhutto, former Sindh ministers Masood Khuhro, Imtiaz Shaikh, Amir Bakhsh Bhutto and Qadir Bux Bhatti condemned the killing of Munir Sangi. They condoled the death of the deceased.
PPP MNAs Khalid Iqbal Memon, Anwar Bhutto and District Naib Nazim Munwar Abro arrived at the spot.
Expressing solidarity with the journalists and condemning police for its slackness demanded that the assailants should be arrested.
PFUJ: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists called for an independent inquiry into the killing of a young cameraman who was shot dead while covering a feud.
According to a press statement issued here on Tuesday, PFUJ president Pervaiz Shaukat and secretary-general Mazhar Abbas said that the probe should include the possibility of a case of “target killing”.
It said that Mr Sangi had become the first mediaman from the electronic media to be killed by armed men.
The statement said that firing was said to have stopped when he reached the spot but a bullet hit him in the head as he started filming the scene.
The PFUJ leaders demanded that a Sindh High Court judge should conduct the probe.
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