Kashmore tragedy: Prime suspect shot dead by accomplice

KASHMORE: The prime suspect, Rafique Malak, in the Kashmore gang-rape case has been shot dead by an accomplice on Friday night, according to the district police.

SSP Amjad Ali Shaikh and DIG Larkana Nasir Aftab have also confirmed the news. He was in police custody on three-day judicial remand.

Earlier in the day, the Kashmore police arrested the second suspect in the gang-rape of a mother and her four-year-old daughter. SSP Amjad Shaikh, in this regard, said that Khairullah Bugti was arrested in Balochistan’s Sui, where he fled after the incident.

The police have claimed that they took Malak to arrest Bugti, who opened fire when he saw the police. Malak was killed in the crossfire, according to the SSP.

In other developments in the case, the four-year-old victim’s condition has become critical once again and she was initially shifted from the Chandka Medical Hospital in Larkana to the Children Hospital’s Emergency Ward and later shifted via ambulance to Karachi.