Pakistan fruit-seller, buyers engage in watermelon fight

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    KARACHI: In a bizarre incident, people attacked each other with watermelon in Karachi after heated arguments on its rate.

    The video of the messy fight is going viral on the internet.

    It all started between the fruit seller and the buyers on the exorbitant rates of watermelon. After heated arguments, the buyers and the seller attacked each other with the watermelons during the fight.

    During the flight enraged people also used sticks that resulted in injuries to two people.

    The use of watermelon increases in summer especially in the Holy month of Ramazan. People love to have this fruit on their Iftar table but the prices of this and other commodities record sharp rise.

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