Injured protestor dies; dozens arrested outside hospital

Hundreds of political workers gathered outside the hospital


Our Correspondent May 24, 2025
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HYDERABAD:

An activist of a Sindhi nationalist party, Irfan Laghari, who was critically injured during a clash between the police and the nationalists in Moro, Noushehro Feroze district, on May 20, passed away during treatment at Liaquat University Hospital in Hyderabad on Friday.

Hundreds of political workers gathered outside the hospital to take away the dead body but the police drove them off and also detained around a dozen of them including a young woman.

All of the political activists were later released. Meanwhile, the police, after the postmortem, shifted Laghari's body to village Bijarani Laghari in Moro. The nationalist leaders condemned the police action on the workers outside the hospital.

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