LARKANA: A husband, Darban Luhar, a railway employee, gunned down his young wife and injured his brother Irfan Luhar over an allegation of honour-killing In Bhains Colony within the limits of Rahmatpur police station on Tuesday.

The area people informed the police who reached the spot and shifted the injured to Chandka Medical College Hospital for treatment and further management but doctors confirmed death of the woman and medical treatment of the injured was continuing.

The heirs of the woman said that Darban, father of three children, fired bullets in the wee hours over his wife and brother and critically injured both but Rahmatpur police said that the killing had taken place over Karo-Kari and further investigation is underway. After autopsy the dead body was handed over to the heirs who took it for final rites. However, neither any FIR was registered nor any arrest was made by the cops till filing of this report.