KHAIRPUR:Four members of a family were shot dead by armed persons for offering robbery resistance near Piryaloi in katchha area of Indus River on Thursday. A group of armed persons entered village Khulra in katcha area of Indus River near Piryaloi within the jurisdiction of Faiz Muhammad Bindo police station and broke the shutter of the shop of Khalique Dino Abbasi. On the noise of the shutter, the inmates woke up.
The armed men opened fire seeing them, killing Khaliq Dino Abbasi, 45, his two sons Amjad Ali Abbasi, 24, Shahid Ali Abbasi, 22; and elder brother Ali Dino Abbasi, 55, on the spot. They fled to unknown destination after a swift operation. On information, police rushed to the scene, shifted the bodies to Pir Jo Goth Hospital for medico-legal formalities and later handed over to the heirs. Police could not register the case till filing the story. The search for the killers was underway, the police said.