Tribal Enmity: Three City School boys shot dead by men in burqas
The children, Abdul Latif, Irfan and Mumtaz, studied at City School, Pannu Aqil.
SUKKUR:
Three armed men in burqas barged into a house and shot dead three boys, two of them brothers, as they were getting ready for school on Tuesday morning.
The attack took place in Sufi Mohallah of Pannu Aqil, reportedly because of an old enmity.
The men barged into the house of brothers Haji Mahar and Yakoob Mahar. The men then opened fire on the children. Twelve-year-old Abdul Latif and seven-year-old Irfan, sons of Haji Mahar, and eight-year-old Mumtaz, son of Yakoob Mahar, died. The men escaped.
The police sent the bodies to the taluka hospital but a case has yet to be registered. Sufi Mohallah was cordoned off and another village, Mattur Chachar, was raided as police went on house-to-house searches. The victim’s relatives had alleged that Chachar clansmen were responsible for the murder because of a seven-year-old enmity over a robbery in which a Chachar man was killed.
Haji Mahar and his brother, Yakoob Mahar, were residents of Hussain Belli, a katcha area in Pannu Aqil, but they moved to Sufi Mohallah a few years ago because of their children’s education. The children, Abdul Latif, Irfan and Mumtaz, studied at City School, Pannu Aqil.
Sukkur SSP Saqib Ismail Memon said that police teams were dispatched to the katcha area to look for suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2012.
Three armed men in burqas barged into a house and shot dead three boys, two of them brothers, as they were getting ready for school on Tuesday morning.
The attack took place in Sufi Mohallah of Pannu Aqil, reportedly because of an old enmity.
The men barged into the house of brothers Haji Mahar and Yakoob Mahar. The men then opened fire on the children. Twelve-year-old Abdul Latif and seven-year-old Irfan, sons of Haji Mahar, and eight-year-old Mumtaz, son of Yakoob Mahar, died. The men escaped.
The police sent the bodies to the taluka hospital but a case has yet to be registered. Sufi Mohallah was cordoned off and another village, Mattur Chachar, was raided as police went on house-to-house searches. The victim’s relatives had alleged that Chachar clansmen were responsible for the murder because of a seven-year-old enmity over a robbery in which a Chachar man was killed.
Haji Mahar and his brother, Yakoob Mahar, were residents of Hussain Belli, a katcha area in Pannu Aqil, but they moved to Sufi Mohallah a few years ago because of their children’s education. The children, Abdul Latif, Irfan and Mumtaz, studied at City School, Pannu Aqil.
Sukkur SSP Saqib Ismail Memon said that police teams were dispatched to the katcha area to look for suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2012.