Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Sukkur police said that they had filed a first information report (FIR) on terrorism charges against more than 100 unidentified people. These people are accused of attacking police officers, throwing stones at vehicles, damaging public and private property, and stirring up flood victims outside of a relief camp on Friday, when the prime minister and foreign minister were in town.
PM Shehbaz Sharif, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, and other ministers went to Sukkur district to see how bad the flooding was and talk to people in relief camps who had been forced to leave their homes because of the flooding. When he went to a camp set up near BA College, families from different places who had been affected by the rain blocked some roads to protest that the government wasn’t doing enough to get rid of standing water.
A police spokesman said that when officials were doing their jobs outside the camp, some rioters, including women, blocked the main road. This made it hard to keep the peace and turned flood-affected families against the officials. He said that some of the rioters also broke the windshields of cars, which stopped traffic for eight hours.
“We have filed a case against the lawbreakers under the Anti-Terrorism Act,” the spokesperson said, adding that they would be punished according to the law as soon as they could be found in CCTV footage and other videos that showed them breaking the law.
He said that no one would be able to break the law and make trouble at this important time.
Several flood-affected families said that the police filed a “fake” FIR against the protesters. They said that the protesters only wanted to meet with the prime minister and foreign minister to tell them that they had not been given food, tents, mosquito nets, beds, and other resources to help them.
Protesters said that city and public health officials were not doing anything to get rid of the standing rainwater in their areas, even after several days.
