SUKKUR: A couple and their son, along with a close relative, were killed in an attack by armed men of their rival clan over a dispute over land near Abdul Majeed Shah village within the jurisdiction of the Maula Dad police station near Jacobabad on Friday.

One of the attackers was later shot dead in a tit-for-tat action by the aggrieved party.

Police said the armed men, believed to be members of Sargani and Qambrani clans, attacked a group of men and women of Thaheem clan when they were busy working in a paddy field near Abdul Majeed village.

Some women managed to catch hold of an attacker, Nek Mohammad Qambrani, when he was trying to flee on a motorcycle.

He was later shot dead by the armed men of Thaheem clan, said the police.

Haq Nawaz and his nephew Raja Thaheem died on the spot and his wife Janul, son Shaman Ali, and a relative, Sikandar Ali suffered serious wounds and died later at the Jacobabad civil hospital.

The bodies were handed over to relatives of the deceased after a post-mortem examination.

Police rounded up 16 people, including seven women, after raids in the village and several nearby localities in the wake of the gory incident.

An FIR was yet to be registered.