Eight people, including four children, lost their lives while three others were injured on Wednesday when a rocket launcher’s shell exploded in a house in Mehwal Shah area of Kashmore district’s Kandhkot tehsil, police said.
Kashmore-Kandhkot Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rohail Khoso confirmed the casualties to republic policy, specifying that the deceased included four children, two women and a man.
He further said that the house — located in the limits of Goghat police station — belonged to Ali Nawaz Sabzoi, and that all the deceased and injured belonged to the same family.
SSP Khoso stated that the police had arrived at the site of the incident and had surrounded the area. He added that the injured also included children.