HYDERABAD:
Rarely do we see a dying young man smiling into a camera while stepping on his foot as blood flows from his slit throat. This tragic scene took place on Sunday evening in Umerkot district where unknown killers or an attacker inflicted a fatal cut on the neck of Ismail Samejo, who walked 100 feet to reach near the office of 15 emergency police officers before breathing his last.
The incident took place near Moti Chowk area. A passerby recording the incident asked Ismail what happened and who attacked him. In his last words he said: “Please hold on, yaar [my friend]”.
“We have no enemy whom we suspect to be the killer,” his father Jamaluddin Samejo told media on Monday during the sit-in protest at Allah Wala Chowk in Umerkot town. According to him, they live in a village about 14 kilometers from Umerkot.
He and his 25-year-old son were visiting a mechanic shop in Umerkot for an engine overhaul. Jamaluddin said he left his son with the vehicle at the mechanic at 6:30 p.m. and a few hours later, around 11 p.m., he learned of the incident.
The sit-in, where the dead body was also brought, continued for over 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 young man had Rs 1,270 cash in his pocket and the police also recovered his mobile phone from the crime scene. Jamaluddin expressed doubts about who made the last call to his son’s cell phone.
Ismail, bleeding profusely from his throat, was put in a mini-truck by local people who took him to the government hospital, but it was too late for his survival.
Persuading the protesters to end the sit-in, SSP Memon sought a five-day delay to arrest 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 unnoticed.” According to him, the police have started investigating the case from all possible angles.
Samejo community elders warned the SSP that they would resume the sit-in after five days if the SSP failed.
