KARACHI, June 16: A teenager was found shot dead in Lyari in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

They said that the body of 19-year-old Ahsan Baloch was found on Mirza Adam Khan Road.

“He was a resident of Singolane,” said Kalri SHO Inspector Safdar Mashwani. “He was hit by a single bullet in the head and it seems that he was kidnapped before being killed and the body was dumped at the scene in the middle of the night.”

He said that the body was handed over to the family after medico-legal formalities at the Civil Hospital Karachi.

He added that the family denied any enmity between the victim and anyone but was reluctant to share his personal details.

“The victim was a nephew of the headmistress of the Lyari Nursing School but his relation with her doesn’t seem to be linked to the murder,” the area SHO said.

Family feud claims man’s life

A man was killed allegedly by his relative over some old family feud in the Keamari area on Saturday, police said.

They said that four youngsters came to see their relative, 35-year-old Fazal Mahmood, at his Gulshan Sikandarabad residence. After almost an hour-long discussion one of the visitors pulled out a pistol and fired multiple shots at their host that proved fatal, the police said.

“All the four youngsters were arrested later,” said Inspector Yar Muhammad Rind, the SHO of the Jackson police station. “They have been identified as Mir Alam, Asif, Imran and Zeeshan: they are cousins and also the victim’s close relatives.”

The victim and the suspects had some monetary and property disputes for more than a year, he added.

“We have arrested the suspects and seized the pistol. A case will be registered against them after medico-legal formalities at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre,” added the area SHO.

‘Bandit’ shot dead

A suspected bandit was shot dead in an alleged exchange of fire with the people he had tried to rob near Dalmia in the early hours of Saturday, officials said.

They said that armed riders were robbing passers-by of cellphones and valuables but when they attempted to intercept a car the occupants of the vehicle fired on them late Friday night.

“The police received information about the exchange of gunfire near Dalmia,” said an official at the Shahrea Faisal police station. “Later we found the body of a man and also seized a pistol and several cellphones. The deceased remained unidentified but in the meantime we got
several witnesses who informed us about the incident.”

The police registered a case (FIR 496/2012) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 392 (punishment for robbery) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unknown persons at the Sharea Faisal police station.