LARKANA: A group of armed men gunned down a farmer and wounded his companion in Saeedo Dero village near Naudero town on Friday reportedly over a dispute over ownership of an irrigation tributary.

Police shifted the dead body of Mushtaque Gopang, 49, and the wounded Pahelwan Gopang to Naudero hospital.

The situation grew tense when the attackers did not allow the body to be brought to the village for burial, sparking protest by the mourning relatives.-Correspondent