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KARACHI, Feb 27: A 25-year-old man was shot dead on Tuesday by two attackers in Lyari. The victim, identified as Mohammed Rafique son of Rustum Baloch, was an auto-mechanic and was having lunch with his father at their roadside workshop at Tannery Road when the attackers came on motorcycle and opened fire on him.
The victim’s father told Baghdadi police that the attackers were riding black Honda 125cc and the pillion rider had Kalashnikov (AK-47) rifle.
“My son ran towards a lane as the attacker opened fire on him. He was, however, hit and fell”, he said. Rustum said the armed man approached his son and again shot him from a very close range.
He took his son to the Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Hospital sources said the victim had received three bullets, one in his throat and the two in his chest.
The police suspected that the targeted killing of the young man could be related to the ongoing gang war between two criminal groups in Lyari. However, they said the police had no criminal record of the victim.
DACOIT INJURED: A suspected dacoit was injured and arrested in New Karachi following a shootout with police.
Bilal Colony police said a police party was patrolling the area when they spotted a suspicious car, occupied by three people at Sector 5-E. The occupants of the car sped away when the police signalled them to stop, they said.
The police said the suspect abandoned the car and attempted to flee on foot as the police mobile continued its chase.
They said the fleeing suspects opened fire on the police who also retaliated and hit one of the suspects.
The police arrested the injured suspect, who was identified as Shahid, a resident of Sukkur. Two other suspects, however, managed to flee the scene under the cover of fire, police said.
They said the police seized an unlicensed pistol from the injured suspect, who had received a bullet in his right leg. The car of the suspects was also seized.
