 Four people were killed and 12 injured Friday when demonstrators clashed with police in southern Pakistan, police and doctors said. Police opened fire after failing to quell hundreds of people trying to storm a police station in the town of Qambar 425 kilometers (264 miles) north of Karachi, they said. The rally was staged after the Sindh provincial government decided to merge Qambar into a newly created district of Shahdadpur after splitting former premier Benazir Bhutto's home district of Larkana.
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The protesters made faces and rolled their eyes burnt tyres to block the main national highway and attacked several police and private vehicles. Police said three people were killed and several injured in firing when they tried to attack the police station. Hospital officials said they received 13 people, mostly with bullet wounds, and one of them died of his injuries. "We are trying to control the situation," said police official Ramzan Channa.
Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) strongly condemned the police firing and demanded action against local officials. "The protestors were peaceful and their demand was genuine. Use of brutal police force is highly condemnable," provincial PPP president Nisar Khuhro told AFP.
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