A man, a boy and two women were killed and many others were injured in an exchange of fire between two groups in Siddique Goth in Quaidabad on Tuesday when free government school uniforms were distributed to girl students at Government Girls Primary School of the area.
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However, the police were reluctant to give details of the incident. Relations of the dead and injured told reporters at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre that two Qabza (criminal) groups of the area were involved in the incident and the area police protected them. Residents of the area said the Qabza groups shot dead Karim Bakhsh, aged 60, Nadeem aged 12, Kareema, aged 18, and Zareena, aged 20, when a scuffle broke out during the distribution of school uniforms. Three of the injured, Ghulam Rasool, Swaleh Mohammed and Mohammed Husain, were in critical condition. There were 117 uniforms only whereas the school had more than 350 students, they added.
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Residents claimed the uniforms had been with the school headmaster, Mr Ladan, for the last three months for reasons best known to him. But on Tuesday when they protested against the delay in the distribution of uniforms, the Qabza groups destroyed houses of many residents, who claimed that those affected went to Sukhan police station to lodge FIRs, but the police refused to register their complaints and advised them to resolve the matter on their own.
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