SUKKUR: A man allegedly shot dead his 12-year-old niece in their home and fled the area to escape arrest, officials at the Humayun Sharif police station of Shikarpur said.
They collected the body of the victim, Fatima Chandio, and took it to a nearby government health facility for a postmortem examination.
Claiming that she had been shot dead by her uncle, Qamaruddin Chandio and other relatives, in the name of honour, the police started a hunt for the suspect.
Meanwhile, a murder FIR was registered against Qamaruddin at the Humayun police station. The police also arrested his alleged associates, Abdullah Chandio and Ziaul Haq Chandio in the Aghan Sindh Wah area, Shikarpur SSP Mohammad Kaleem said.—Correspondent