BADIN/MIRPURKHAS - At least eight members of a family were killed when a vehicle fell into a ravine near Talhar in Badin, officials said on Monday.According to local police, 10 persons of a same family were going from Jamshoro to Talhar in a van. The vehicle fell into a ravine when it reached near Talhar due to over speeding, killing eight people on board and wounding another two. The rescue teams reached the sight of the accident and shifted the bodies to a hospital in Talhar for legal formalities.Police also rushed to the scene and started investigations. In Mirpurkhas, two persons including a police constable were killed and nine others sustained severe injuries when heavy contingents of police attacked village Basham Brohi near Sindhri Chowk in the limit of Sindhri Police Station the other day. Report said that heavy contingents of police with armoured personnel carrier (APC) attacked village Basham Brohi to which scores of villagers retaliated. In the crossfire, eleven persons including a constable sustained injuries. They were rushed to the Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas and later, constable Akbar Shah and Dilmurad Brohi were referred to Hyderabad due to their precarious condition, but they could not survive and succumbed to their injuries.Talking to media, the villagers said that over 60 police mobiles, trucks and an APC attacked their village, resorted indiscriminate fire, killing a youth and inuring innocent women. They alleged that the police had blocked the main Sindhri-Mirpurkhas road and they were not allowed to shift the injured to hospital. They blamed that it was pre-planned attack on the behest of an influential landlord of Junejo caste. They further said there was already an old dispute between the villagers and landlord for 222 acres of agriculture land. They said the landlord wanted to occupy the agriculture land and is misusing the police and other government agencies against the innocent people. The police officials have said their operation was against the dacoits hiding in the village. Meanwhile, civil society representatives and human rights activists held a demonstration, protesting against the police operation and killing of Brohi community youth. Meanwhile, Sindh Agriculture Research Mirpurkhas will also organise a seminar today, at Jhilori Taluka Mirpurkhas in connection with grow more wheat campaign. On the other hand, the Fauji Fertilizer Company is organising a seminar on “profitable wheat crop cultivation” in Hyderabad today. According to announcement, the Director General Agriculture Research Dr Atta Hussain Soomro will be the chief guest while President Sindh Abadgar Board Abdul Majeed Nizamani will preside over the seminar where the agriculture experts will guide the growers about wheat crop cultivation and balanced utilisation of fertilizers and pesticides.