By Kamran Khamiso Khowaja
Thatta: A youth was injured critically when a brawl broke out between the two groups over a PUBG game outside a shopping mall late on Wednesday. Source said that two groups of youth belonging to the Brohi and Mirjut community exchanged hot words and hurled abuses at each other over losing an online game PUBG. That heated argument between the two groups turned into a skirmish in no time leaving a youth Yasir Brohi injured critically. He was rushed to Civil Hospital Thatta where he got emergency treatment and was discharged later. “Injured boy received blows on his head; said an onlooker. The intervention of the police was sought to defuse the tension that had engulfed the area following the scuffle.
On the other hand a group of armed men who were believed to be henchmen of a few influential figures of the area stormed a petrol pump and a nearby hotel on Jungshahi-Thatta road late on Wednesday.
They also held the staff hostage and thrashed them and also trespassed the agricultural land situated along with the hotel. It was learnt by this correspondent that the petrol pump, hotel, and agriculture farm belonged to the same owner.
Police had received the CCTV footages of the whole episode