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WOUNDED WERE TOLD BY POLICE TO STAY PUT
KARACHI, Jan 13, 1997: Testifying before the three-member tribunal,
investigating the causes of the death of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, on Monday, a
police officer said some injured people had also been lying on the scene of the
incident after 10 pm, away from the six dead. ASI Shahzad Hussain, 28,
working at Clifton police station since 1993, said some people who had been
lying on the road were said to be injured because the policemen standing near
them had been directing them not to move or get up. "They should lie in the
same position." Later, he said, when he went back to the police station in a
police mobile, he saw three of the injured who had been travelling along with
the six dead. The witness was answering a question from the tribunal as to
how he was sure that those sitting or lying on the road had been really
injured and not dead.
A: Because they were being told not to move.
Q: Did you see any injured resting against the vehicle?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you also see anybody lying underneath a vehicle?
A: No.
Q: Were the injured handcuffed?
A: I don't remember now.
Q: When you left the scene of the incident with the dead and the injured, did
you see the private vehicles of Murtaza's men parked on the road?
A: Yes.
Q: When were the bodies brought to the JPMC emergency?
A: After past midnight. First to arrive was the body of Ashiq Jatoi, and after a
considerable lapse of time, the five other dead were brought to the
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