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time then was about 10:30 pm. There were around 10-20 policemen outside,
and they were stopping photographers from entering the hospital.
Q: There were seven SDMs at the hospital, yet all of them put together could
not locate where the dead and injured were.
A: I came to know that some have died, the exact number is not known.
Q: What did you do next?
A: He (Murtaza) was taken to the operation theatre. He was dead at about
quarter to 12 midnight. Tariq Niazi, another SDM, was in the hospital and
policemen also came there on the second floor after the death of Mir Murtaza.
I also saw Nasir Hussain, brother-in-law of Mir Murtaza, who was very angry
with the police and abused them and possibly there was a scuffle between
them.
Q: Did Hameed Haroon ask you to call an ambulance, who told you that Mir
Murtaza should be shifted?
A: Hameed Haroon and others had not said that the injured is being shifted,
but people looking after him gave me the impression that they wanted to
shift him to some other hospital.
Q: Did you go to the place of the incident?
A: No.
Q: Can you give any reason why the entire bureaucracy of the government
did not know the whereabouts of the other dead men and of the injured
persons.
A: The injured or the dead could not be located only on wireless messages.
Q: Can you give any reason why no effective answer was given as to why one
or two SDMs did not go to any of the hospitals where possibly the dead and
injured could have been taken?
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