HYDERABAD:
Rarely a dying young man is seen smiling before a camera while walking on his foot as blood oozes out from his slashed throat. This tragic scene unfolded on Sunday night in Umerkot district where unknown killers or an assailant gave a fatal cut on the neck of Ismail Samejo, who walked around a 100-feet to reach near the office of 15 emergency police before breathing his last.
The incident occurred near Moti chowk area. A bystander recording the incident asked Ismail what had happened and who attacked him. In his last words, he said, “please hold it, yaar [my friend].”
“We do not have any enemy whom we suspect to be the killer,” Jamaluddin Samejo, father, told the media at the protest sit-in staged at Allah Wala chowk in Umerkot city on Monday. According to him, they live in a village located around 14 kilometers away from Umerkot.
He and his 25-year-old son were visiting a mechanic’s shop in Umerkot for engine overhaul. Jamaluddin said he left his son with the vehicle at the mechanic’s shop at 6.30 pm and some hours later around 11pm he came to know about that incident.
The sit-in, where the dead body was also brought, continued for over six hours until SSP Uzair Ahmed Memon succeeded in assuring the victim’s family that the police will arrest the culprit within five days.
The young man had Rs1,270 cash in his pocket and the police also recovered his mobile phone from the crime scene. Jamaluddin expressed doubt on the person who made the last call on his son’s mobile.
Ismail, bleeding profusely from his throat, was put a in a single-can mini truck by the local people who took him to the government hospital but it was too late for his survival.
Persuading the protesters to end the sit-in, SSP Memon sought five days deadline to catch the killers, assuring that he would try to honour his pledge within three days. “We are checking all CCTV cameras in the city and I believe that no murder can go untraced.” According to him, the police have started to investigate the case from all possible angles.
The elders of Samejo community warned the SSP that they will resume sit-in after five days if the SSP failed.
