ISLAMABAD, May 16 (NNN-APP) – At least nine people were killed and five others seriously injured, in a shootout between two rival groups last night, in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, local media reported.
According to the reports, late last night, the exchange of intensive firing took place between the Jagirani tribe and Chachar tribe, for hours, over an old enmity in the Kandhkot area of Sindh.
Police personnel told media, armed men of both sides were firing at each other, while hiding in bunkers, when security personnel reached the site.
Police and rescue teams have shifted the bodies and the injured to a hospital and filed two separate cases against each of the armed groups. Police have started operations and raids to arrest the culprits and confiscate weapons from them.
Automatic guns, hand grenades and rockets were used in the clash, local reports said.
A heavy contingent of police has been deployed in the area, to defuse tension after intensive firing for hours spread panic among locals.– NNN-APP
