Tribal enmity: Two children killed in house attack
The injured victims were identified as 30-year-old Meer Zadi, wife of the deceased soldier
NAWABSHAH:
Eight unidentified men attacked the house of a deceased soldier, killed two children and injured five other people, including the soldier’s wife, in Goth Mirza Farrukh Baig near Nawabshah on Monday. The house in Goth Mirza Farrukh Baig belonged to Ali Ghulam Bugti, a martyred soldier of the Pakistan army. The children were identified as two-year-old Zakir Bugti and eight-year-old Shahila. The injured victims were identified as 30-year-old Meer Zadi, wife of the deceased soldier, his 28-year-old niece Fahmida, his 14-year-old niece Noor Bano, five-year-old Aamir and 11-year-old Ghulam Mujtaba. The deceased and the injured were taken to Peoples Medical College Hospital, after which the children were buried in the village graveyard. According to Jam Sahab police, the attack was the result of an old tribal enmity.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2016.
Eight unidentified men attacked the house of a deceased soldier, killed two children and injured five other people, including the soldier’s wife, in Goth Mirza Farrukh Baig near Nawabshah on Monday. The house in Goth Mirza Farrukh Baig belonged to Ali Ghulam Bugti, a martyred soldier of the Pakistan army. The children were identified as two-year-old Zakir Bugti and eight-year-old Shahila. The injured victims were identified as 30-year-old Meer Zadi, wife of the deceased soldier, his 28-year-old niece Fahmida, his 14-year-old niece Noor Bano, five-year-old Aamir and 11-year-old Ghulam Mujtaba. The deceased and the injured were taken to Peoples Medical College Hospital, after which the children were buried in the village graveyard. According to Jam Sahab police, the attack was the result of an old tribal enmity.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2016.