SUKKUR: Unidentified attackers gunned down two men when they were returning to Abdul Majeed Malik village after appearing in a court in Tangwani on Monday and easily escaped while firing into the air.

Family members and relatives of the victims said that Javed Malik and Babal Malik died on the spot after the attack.

The area’s police and relatives shifted the dead bodies to Tangwani rural health centre where doctors carried out medico-legal formalities and handed back the bodies to heirs.

The victims’ relatives, however, along with a large number of supporters, took the bodies to SSP’s office where they placed the coffins on the road and staged a sit-in.

The protesters led by Ghulam Rasool Malik, Manzoor Malik, Ahmed Ali Malik, Babel Khatoon, Chandni Khatoon and others alleged that the assailants belonged to Cholyani community who spread terror by killing their youths. They would not end their protest until the killers were arrested, they warned.

The protesters then entered the SSP office raising charged slogans, where ASP Nouman Zafar and DSP Syed Asghar Shah persuaded them to end the protest and assured them that the assailants would be nabbed soon after registration of case against them.

The protesters afterwards ended the demonstration and took away the bodies for burial in their village graveyard.

Police officials said that the incident was an offshoot of a longstanding enmity between two groups of Malik and Cholyani tribes over a piece of agricultural land.

Published in Dawn, November 19th, 2024