Daily Times

SHIKARPUR: The Shikarpur Police on late Tuesday night retrieved body of a 12-year-old boy, who went missing on Monday, from a fish pond situated outside the Chanesar Mirani village in the precinct of the Napar-Kot police station in Shikarpur.

Reportedly, passersby alerted police immediately after spotting dead body of a boy identified as Muhammad Luqman Mirani.

Subsequently, local divers rushed to the pond and fished out the body.

Meanwhile, Mirani family members including Arbelo Khan, Hazoor Bux, Zahid Hussain, Khalid Hussain and others staged a demonstration demanding justice and blocked Kandhkot-Shikarpur Indus Highway.

They alleged that the boy was kidnapped, tortured and killed over an old enmity between Mirani and Jaffari tribesmen.

Later, protesters called off their demonstration following assurance from Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sarfaraz Nawab Shaikh that all their demands would be fulfilled.

Police have started investigation into the incident.

Motorcyclist dies, another person injured in road accident in Shikarpur

A motorcyclist lost his life and another person sustained critical injuries on Wednesday in a fatal road accident on Jacobabad-Sukkur national highway in the precinct of the Lodra police station.

Reportedly, Station House Officer (SHO) Muhammad Khan Khoro told the media that 20-year-old Amjad Ali and his friend Naimatulalh Jhullan, residents of Zarkhail village, were travelling on a motorcycle when his two-wheeler was ran over by a speedy truck heading in the opposite direction.

Meanwhile, police officers arrested truck driver Ghulam Abbas and shifted injured persons to the Rai Bahadur Udhaw Das Tara Chand (RBUT) Civil Hospital in Shikarpur for medical attention.

Amjad Ali succumbed to his injuries when he was being shifted to the Larkana Hospital on recommendation of doctors due to his precarious condition.

The deceased’s body was handed over to his family after completion of medico-legal formality.

Published in Daily Times, September 27^th 2018.