SUKKUR: Two bandits held in Sukkur

Published October 26, 2002

SUKKUR, Oct 25: Two dacoits, Nawaz Marfani and Aziz Eidan, were arrested in Sukkur on Friday.

Two armed dacoits intercepted a motorcyclist, Sher Dil Solangi, in Sultankot and tried to snatch his motorcycle.

A police party happened to arrive there. An encounter took place between the dacoits and police as a result of which Sher Dil Solangi and two passersby, Abdul Rahim and Haji Ahmed, were injured.

Soon police arrested both the dacoits. Two Kalashnikovs were recovered from their possession.

TWO HELD: Two dacoits were arrested in Sukkur on Friday.

Four dacoits barged into the house of an official of Hesco on Hussaini Road. They looted cash and other valuables and fled.

Soon a police party, led by ASP Mazher Shaikh, started chasing the dacoits and after an exchange of fire was able to arrest two of the dacoits, Abdul Ghaffar Dayo and Momin Maher, who had been injured.

Two TT pistols and a good quantity of ammunition was recovered from their possession.

WOMAN KILLED: A man, Mansoor Patafi, shot dead his wife, Batoo Patafi, 16, on the pretext of Karo-kari in the Ashiq Patafi village, near Daharki, on Friday.

10 HOUSES GUTTED: Ten houses were gutted in Baberloi on Friday. However, the cause of the fire could not be ascertained.

The villagers complained that they had informed the Fire Brigade in Sukkur and Rohri but they demanded money for sending a fire-fighting squad as Baberloi, which is located in Khairpur district, was too far from Sukkur.

The Fire Brigade of Khairpur arrived at the site after two hours and extinguished the fire.

DEMO HELD: The journalists of Kandhkot, Jacobabad, and Thul held a protest demonstration on Friday against the murder of a newsman, Shahid Soomro.

The journalists marched through the main thoroughfares of the city and staged a sit-in in front of the Kandhkot police station. The journalists demanded the government to hang the culprits in public.

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