DADU, Aug 15: Three persons, including a child, died while over 100 others were hospitalized due to spread of gastroenteritis in Dadu district during the last 24 hours ending on Friday evening.

The dead persons were Sajid, 10, son of Abid Ali Malik, resident of Malik Faiz Mohammad village; Pirano, 50, son of Ahmed Jiskani, resident of Aminani village; and Imtiaz, 25, son of Abbas Leghari, resident of Markhpur village of Dadu taluka.

Over 100 others, mostly children, from the villages of Mohammad Ali Solangi, Saeedullah Malik, Piaro Arain, Dari and Khair Mohammad Khokhar were admitted to different government hospitals in Phulji, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Dadu, Mehar, Sehwan, and Bhan Saeedabad.

District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar, when contacted, said that he had received complaints of shortage of medicines and the health staff from health centres of remote areas of the district.

He said that he had released emergency funds to the DCO to control the outbreak of disease in the rain-hit areas.

DCO Aijaz Ahmed Mangi said that he had received reports of gastroenteritis cases from different parts of Dadu district, especially from villages of the Kachho area.

He said that he had directed the EDO (health) to send mobile teams of doctors to the affected villages.

MUSEUM: DCO Aijaz Ahmed Mangi has announced that a museum will be constructed in the premises of the Allama I.I. Kazi Library, Dadu, at a cost of Rs5 million.

He was speaking to Nazims of different union councils at a meeting in his office here on Friday.

He said that an auditorium and a children’s park would also be constructed in Dadu city and repair work of of Amri-ja-Dara, Dara of Sehwan, the Khudabad Masjid and other historical sites would start soon and funds for the works had already been released by the district government.

KILLED: A man, Qalandar Bukhsh Jamali, 45, was shot dead by three men in the premises of the district and sessions judge court here on Friday when he arrived there to attend the hearing of his case.

The guards of the court apprehended one of the attackers, identified as Badar Kumbhar, and recovered a rifle, a pistol and 30 bullets from his possession.

The remaining two accomplices escaped.

Later, Hassan Jamali, the brother of the dead man, lodged a murder case with the Dadu police against Badar, Rafiq and Akhtar Kumbhar.

The cause of the killing was said to be an old enmity.