Kandkot : Sept 27 : At least 8 people died including women and children when a rocket launcher shell exploded in a house in Mehwal Shah area of Kashmore district’s Kandhkot tehsi Kandkot Wednesday morning.
Kashmore-Kandhkot Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rohail Khoso confirmed the casualties to the media and saying the deceased included four children, two women and a man.
The local police said the children of the family had found rocket bombshell while playing outside the house and they brought it home where it exploded killing 8 members of the family . Three others persons of the family had injured in the blast.
The police is investing as to how a rocket launcher bombshell reached Mehwal Shah area of Kashmore district’s Kandkot tehsil . The police and other law enforcing agencies had surrounded the area where rocket launcher’s shell had exploded. The LEAs are also investigating if the rocket launcher exploded in Mehwal Shah area of Kandkot district had any link with the dacoits of Kacha area close to Kashmore.
The Sindh police and LEAs have launched a decisive operation against the dacoits of Kacha area of Sindh and there is a possibility that the rocket launcher exploded in Mehwal Shah area was hid by the dacoits to keep it away from the police in the case of their surrenders . In recent days many dacoits of Kacha area of Kashmore have surrendered to the police and sought clemency from the authorities.
According to the police , the deadbodies and injured have been shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Kandkot .
Meanwhile, caretaker chief minister of Sindh, Justice (Retd) Baqir Raza , has sought report on explosion of rocket launcher shell and directed to the authorities to investigate how a rocket launcher shell reached in Kandkot in Sindh and if it has any link with the dacoits of Kacha area in Sindh.
