NAUNDERO: Bhutto-Khuhro clans’ dispute claimed another life here on Wednesday and two others were injured.
The dispute started in the katcha area wherein both sides used sophisticated weapons against each other and firing continued intermittently creating panic in the area. Total Narejo was gunned down, his brother Mukeem Narejo and Amir Bux Bhutto were injured.
On receipt of information, concerned Ketty Mumtaz police station cops reached the spot and shifted the body and injured to Government Hospital here. Duty doctor referred both the injured to Chandka Medical College Hospital for treatment and further management as there are no emergency treatment facilities in Naundero Hospital since it’s birth.
Injured Mukeem Narejo told newsmen in the hospital that they had taken their buffalo herd to the jungle for grazing when suddenly they were attacked by Khuhro community armed men in which my brother Total was killed and two have been injured including himself.
Ketty Mumtaz police authorities said that they received information about the outbreak of the old dispute between Khuhro and Bhutto communities. They said they reached the spot, shifted the body and injured to the hospital adding whosoever will be involved will be arrested. They said the accused have escaped but soon they will be nabbed. Neither any FIR was registered till the filing of this report nor any arrest was made by the police.
It must be mentioned here that this dispute has been going on for the past nine years over ownership of 3200 acre land in the riverine area between Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto and Sardar Asad Ali Khuhro and has so far claimed 23 precious lives from both sides.