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equest in this regard. However, the medical-legal report of Shahid Hayat,
son of Hayatullah Khan, said that his examination was also conducted by the
JPMC MLO at the Aga Khan Hospital on the request of the police. The history
of the case has been described in the report as "firing as alleged". The report
says that the duty doctor who examined the ASP at the AKU said the depth
of the wound could not be ascertained, and the investigating officer had been
required to produce the concerned record from the AKU, and also the clothes
of the injured for further disposal. The Sindh government constituted a
special medical board to give its opinion within 24 hours on the injury of,
SHO Clifton, on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Ismail, one of the six injured, who received gunshots
in Friday's shoot-out in which Mir Murtaza Bhutto and six others were killed,
is improving at the intensive care unit of orthopaedic ward at the JPMC.
Mohammad Ismail has had a femur (thigh bone) fracture in the firing. Femur
extends from the hip to the knee and is the longest and strongest bone in the
skeleton. Dr Mazhar Memon and Ayaz, who were discharged from the JPMC
on Sunday with Asghar Ali, were brought to the JPMC for treatment after
they complained of pains in their wounds. Later, both of them were taken
back to the Clifton police station. Mohammad Bachal Ujjan had received a
gunshot wound in the firing on Friday and was brought to the JPMC, with
five other injured, he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. The sixth
injured, Haq Nawaz, who came to the JPMC on Friday night was shifted to
some other place the same night. On Tuesday, the SPP, South, was asked by
the health department to produce SHO Clifton before the medical board on
Wednesday at Services Hospital where he was examined by the board for
quite some time.
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