A youth was killed when unidentified persons opened fire at a couple in the limits of Khairpur Hanguraja police station for honour, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Thursday.
The deceased’s wife was, however, injured in the incident.
Soon after learning about the killing, police reached the spot and shifted the dead as well as the injured to a hospital.
Police said that the deceased had been identified as Sattar Noho Potto.
SSP Tauheedur Rehman said the incident was being investigated and soon the culprits would be in the police’s custody.
However, no case of the incident had been registered till the filing of this report.
Bullet-riddled body found in Shikarpur
A bullet-riddled body of a man has been found in the fields of a suburban village of Shikarpur.
The deceased has been identified as Durre Muhammad Maarfani.
Police have said the body has been shifted to a hospital for the post-mortem.
On the other hand, the mother of the deceased has said that his son did not have enmity with anyone. “He had just gone to the fields,” she has added.
Reporters: Waqar Hussain Mangi and Abdul Jabbar Abro