From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: 'Buses, trains attacked.

HYDERABAD -- Armed bandits were reporAted to have fired on Larkana-bound MoenAjodaro Express, eight buses, and a truck near Sehwan late last night [March 10] wounding 10 persons, five of them seriously. Strong detachments of the Frontier Constabulary and the Indus Rangers, accompanied by the Sind Police have been despatched to the troubled areas along the Kirthar mountainous range, bordering Baluchistan province.

They are reported to have laid ... siege [to] over 200 armed bandits at a place called Saeh Shahnaing. The bandits are reportedly armed with modern weapons. Immediately after the firing incidents, the road and railway traffic between Dadu and Hyderabad was suspended for the night. - News agencies

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