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Moro
People in Moro district, Sindh, protested on Sunday against the recent attacks on Sindh Rangers in the province. They denounced terrorism, called for its death, and expressed support for the country’s armed forces. According to a statement issued by the authorities, similar protests emerged in various cities of Sindh.
Two Rangers personnel were killed and another injured in three separate terrorist attacks on the paramilitary force in Ghotki, Karachi and Larkana on June 18. In the first attack, a Rangers vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device (IED) near a meat shop on Railway Station Road in Ghotki. Two Rangers personnel and a citizen were lost their lives in the attack, while two others were injured.
“The assailants detonated an IED,” SSP Farrukh Lanjar told reporters. Rangers and police cordoned off the neighbourhood following the attack. The injured were shifted to Taluka Hospital Ghotki and later referred to Rahimyar Khan. The martyred personnel were identified as Zahoor Ahmed and Fayyaz Ahmed. The civilian, who was passing near the vehicle, was a local resident identified as Ghulam Mustafa Bhayo, a retired Railways employee.
DSP Abdul Qadir Chachar told the media that the personnel had parked the vehicle, a double cabin, on the road to buy something. The official added that blast also damaged the vehicle’s rear side leaving multiple pellet holes. A resident, who was having his motorcycle repaired at a shop on the other side of the road, told reporters that a few pellets also hit his motorbike.
A sub-inspector of the BDS, Meenhon Khan, lost his life while six policemen were injured in the accident which occurred on the motorway near the town of Mahesro. The injured, Abdul Jabbar Abbassi, Falak Sher, Qurban Phulpoto, Suhail Shaikh, Lal Khan.
