Acid attack: Boy caught in middle of feuding families

SUKKUR: A 7-year-old boy, Tauqeer Hussain Bozdar, was attacked with acid in Bozdar Muhalla Bozdar Wada on Sunday. According to the boy’s father, Tauqeer’s cousin Farooq Ahmed Bozdar threw the acid because the two families have been engaged in a matrimonial dispute for the past two years. The boy was immediately rushed to the basic health unit. Doctors said that his face and neck were affected but he was out of danger. No case was registered till the filing of this report.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2012.