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On the other hand Dr. Mazhar Memon Senior Vice President of the party’s
Hyderabad Davison blamed the police for opening fire on Mir Murtaza
Bhutto without any provocation . We were returning from a public meeting
at Surjani Town District West , when the police and rangers stopped near the
70 Clifton Dr. Memon told at the JPMC casualty Department .
He said that Mir Murtaza Bhutto came out of the car to talk with the official.
The policemen suddenly opened fire on Murtaza, seriously injuring him. Dr.
Memon said I also came out the vehicle to help my injured leader who was
on the ground and I received a bullet on my leg. Dr. Memon added that
when Murtaza’s guards saw him on the ground on a pool of blood, they
rushed out and opened fire on the police. Mir Murtaza Bhutto raised his
hand in the air, urging the police to hold the fire, he said. The policemen
ignored Murtaza and continued firing.
Memon added that when the firing died down, the Rangers who
were on the spot jumped out from their vehicles. Some eyewitnesses said that
Murtaza after getting out of his car challenged the policemen to shot him. A
man was seen struggling for his life after being hit by police fire in front of
DIG police residence the firing continued for half-an-hour.
It caused great panic in the area. Soon after the incident when
newsmen rushed to the Hospital they were beaten up by highly charged
policemen. The personal of the law-enforcement agencies snatched the
cameras of photographers and cocked their guns. One of the police officers
ordered his force to open fire at journalists should they ignore his orders and
advance. Later some of policemen who had stopped Murtaza Bhutto’s vehicle
claimed that they did not know whose car they had stopped. They said they
could not have opened fire on the motorcade if they had known that it was
Murtaza’s. Other said that they had fire in panic in self-defence. Senior police
officials were light- lipped about the tragedy.
When Murtaza was rushed to the Mideast hospital in an official car, sources
said that blood was oozing out from Murtaza’s mouth. He tried to throw
away the oxygen mask but the doctors kept putting it back. He then collapsed
and lost consciousness. At this time Murtaza’s wife Ghinva and daughter
Fatima reached the hospital. Both of them were crying. They were ordered
out of the ICU where the only official present was the deputy commissioner
south Arif Elahi. Soon the specialist doctors from Jinnah Hospital reached the
Mideast. But no anesthetist was available at the hospital, which normally
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