[DAWN] SUKKUR: Three persons were killed and two others maimed in an armed attack on some members of the Jakhrani community in Dadpur Jagir village late on Monday night, officials at the Mauladad cop shoppe of Jacobabad said on Tuesday.They said that the victims had an old matrimonial dispute with their rivals, also belonging to the same community.
According to the police, a group of gunnies opened indiscriminate fire on the victims while they were working in their agricultural fields. The attack left Sohrab, 27, son of Abdul Nabi and Ameer Hamza, 15, son of Mohammed Azam Jakhrani, dead on the spot and Mohammed Azam Jakhrani and his son Abdul Qadir Jakhrani maimed.
The maimed victims were rushed to the Jacobabad Civil Hospital where Azam Jakhrani also succumbed to his wounds before he could be transported to the Chandka Medical College Hospital in Larkana on doctors’ advice.
A post-mortem examination of the three bodies was performed at the Jacobabad Civil Hospital. Later, the bodies were handed over to the heirs.
The police said that the dispute between the two sides had cropped up over an alleged extramarital affair four years ago. Since then, they said, seven people, including a woman, had bit the dust in attacks and counterattacks, they added.