LARKANA, April 6: The project of constructing a bridge over the Hamal Lake may not be completed within the stipulated time of 18 months due to a row between roads and irrigation departments.

Sources told this correspondent on Saturday the row had hampered the work on the Rs18.8 million project.

Columns to be laid down for constructing the bridge are ready but the department of roads needs water flow to be diverted through the Main Nara Valley Drain (MNV drain) so as to create space for erecting pillars.

The irrigation management looks after the MNV drain and the Hamal Lake.

The sources said local irrigation officials were not cooperating with the department of roads to lift the gates of the MNV drain.

The DCO in this connection talked to the irrigation engineer concerned after which the gates of the MNV drain were lifted for some time but they were closed later.

CC: The Market police on Friday night picked up two accused in the murder case of three members of a family.

Nazeer Ahmad, his wife, Afroz, and their son, Mansoor, were killed on Friday.

Those arrested were identified as Mr Ahmed’s brother, Noor Ahmad Shaikh and his son Naseer Ahmad. Bashir Ahmad Shaikh had lodged the FIR with the Market police.

BODY FOUND: The taluka police on Sunday found a decomposed body of an identified person in an orchard in Sher Mohammad Jamali village on the outskirts of Larkana city.

The corpse was taken to the Chandka Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

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