Seven persons of a family, including six women died, while six other persons fell unconscious apparently by consuming poisonous food near Pano Aqil on Sunday. According to detail, Chand Mahar along with his family members near Pano Aqil district Sukkur went to the wheat farms to work after taking their breakfast. About four hours later they fell unconscious in the farmland.
When people of surrounding areas saw them in this unconscious condition they shifted them to Pano Aqil hospital where no doctor was present to attend them and in the meantime four persons, including Chand Mahar, 56, his daughters, Iqbalan, Shaharbano, his son's daughter Amina and an old woman Salhan Mahar died.