SUKKUR: A man and his son were killed when the motorcycle they were riding came in contact with a landmine near Khalid Brohi village near Tangwani town of Kandhkot-Kashmore district on Monday, officials at the Dera Sarki police station said.

They identified the victims as Ghazi Brohi, 50, and his son, Kaljo Brohi, 25, residents of Khalid Brohi village, adding that they were on their way to Tangwani.

They said that the motorcycle was blown into pieces and the victims’ bodies flew far away from the blast site. The critically wounded victims were rushed to the Tangwani Civil Hospital, where doctors referred them to the Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) due to their critical condition.

However, the father died before he could be moved out of the Tangwani hospital while the son succumbed to his wounds during treatment at the CMCH.

Protesters block highway

After collecting the bodies, the victims’ relatives along with other residents of Khalid Brohi village and local activists of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl took to the streets of Tangwani and held a demonstration against what they claimed to be “acts of terrorism resorted to by two rival groups of the Brohi tribe living in this district”.

The protesters marched up to the Laro Tangwani area, located at the entry/exit point of the town, and blocked the Indus Highway by staging a sit-in and placing the bodies in the middle of the thoroughfare.

They demanded arrest of those who had laid the landmine “to avenge an earlier armed attacks blamed on the victims’ side”.

According to the protesters, the tit-for-tat attacks had started some time ago over a land dispute between the two groups.

An FIR of the landmine blast was not registered till the filing of the report late in the evening.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2015

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