HYDERABAD:
A dying young man is rarely seen smiling at a camera while walking on his foot while blood gushes from his cut 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 about 100 feet to reach near the office of 15 emergency police officers before breathing his last.
The incident occurred near Moti Chowk area. A bystander who recorded the incident asked Ismail what had happened and who attacked him. In his last words, he said, “Please wait, yaar.” [my friend]”.
“We do not have any enemy whom we suspect to be the killer,” Jamaluddin Samejo Sr. told the media at the sit-in protest held at Allah Wala chowk in Umerkot town on Monday. According to him, they live in a village located about 14 kilometers from Umerkot.
He and his 25-year-old son were visiting a mechanic shop in Umerkot to check the engine. Jamaluddin said he dropped his son with the vehicle at the mechanic shop at 6:30 pm and a few hours later, around 11 pm, he found out about the incident.
The sit-in, to which the body was also taken, lasted for more than six hours until SSP Uzair Ahmed Memon managed to assure the victim’s family that the police would arrest the culprit within five days.
The youth had Rs 1,270 cash in his pocket and the police also recovered his mobile phone from the crime scene. Jamaluddin expressed doubts about the person who made the last call from his son’s mobile.
Ismail, who was bleeding profusely from his throat, was put into a mini-can truck by local people who took him to the government hospital, but it was too late for him to survive.
To persuade the protesters to end the sit-in, SSP Memon asked for a five-day deadline to capture the killers, assuring that he would try to fulfill his promise within three days. “We are checking all the CCTV cameras in the city and I believe no murder can go untraced.” According to him, the police started investigating the case from all possible angles.
Samejo community elders warned the SSP that they would resume the sit-ins after five days if the SSP failed.
