Freedom comes too late as a long-serving prisoner was shot dead on the gate of Ghotki Jail by his rivals after he was released following completion of his sentence, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Friday.
Mocharo Billu was freed from Ghotki District Prison after completion of his three-year jail sentence in a murder case.
His opponents waiting for him outside the jail sprayed bullets on him, killing him on the spot. The attackers then made their escape good.
Local police shifted the dead body to the tehsil hospital for autopsy and launched an investigation into the incident.
Man strangles wife to death
A man strangled his wife after an exchange of hot words in Khanpur Mehr area of Gothki.
The father of the deceased woman said that her daughter Gulzaran Soomro was killed by her husband Imam Bukhsh Soomro. The woman was mother of five children.
Heirs of the deceased woman said that a minor dispute erupted between husband and wife during which the husband strangled her wife and she died on the spot.
After committing the crime, the husband fled the scene.
Police after taking the dead body of the woman into their custody shifted to a Khanpur Mehr Hospital for autopsy.
Further investigation was underway.
Reporter Mir Zafarullah