KARACHI, July 8: An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was gunned down in Orangi Town on Sunday, police said.

They said that the body of Mohammad Nafees, 28, was found in Islamia Colony within the remit of the Pirabad police station.

The victim was shot in the head. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

The police said that initial information suggested that the victim had gone missing late Saturday night in Qasba Colony and his body was found on Sunday morning.

They said that he was an activist of Orangi Town’s unit 164 of the MQM’s organisational structure.

Following the recovery of the body, tension gripped parts of Qasba Colony and shops and other commercial activities remained suspended for the day.

Three bodies found

Three bodies were found in Lyari, Nazimabad and Azizabad No 2 on Sunday, police said.

The body of a young man was found in a garbage dump within the remit of the Kalri police station in the morning. It was shifted to the Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

The police said that the body bore torture marks and the victim had also been shot in the head.

Later, the body was shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

The body of another young man was found at a desolate place in Nazimabad on Sunday evening, police said.

They said that the trussed-up body was found near Gujjar Nullah in Nazimabad No 2 within the remit of the Gulbahar police station. The young man was blindfolded and was shot in the head.

Clad in shalwar-kameez, the man seemed to have hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from where it was taken to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

The police said that apparently the culprits had thrown the body from a moving car.

Meanwhile, the body of an unidentified young man, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found in Azizabad No 2 on Sunday night, police said.

They said that the victim, clad in shalwar-kameez, had been shot in the head.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Later, the body was taken to the Edhi morgue for want of identification, the police said.

Stray bullet kills boy

A 10-year-old boy was killed after a stray bullet pierced through his body in Jacob Lines on Sunday.

A duty officer at the Brigade police station said that Mohammad Rizwan had gone out of his house to buy something when he was hit by a stray bullet near Madina Road.

Quoting an eyewitness account, he said that the boy suddenly fell on the road and when people approached him he was bleeding profusely.

He was rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The little boy had suffered a bullet wound in the chest, the officer said.

The victim’s father, Mohammad Aslam, refused to lodge an FIR saying he had no enmity and did want any legal formalities, the duty officer added.

Grenade hurls on trader’s house

Unknown men hurled a hand grenade at the residence of a local trader in the Defence Housing Authority on Sunday but the device could not explode.

Police said that it did not explode because the pin of the grenade had not been taken off.

They said that the trader, Abdul Qadir Memon, lived in Khayaban-i-Mujahid and had been receiving calls for Rs30 million as protection money. However, he refused to pay the extortion money and had informed the police about the threats.

Quoting the trader, the police said that on Sunday also he received a call and the caller demanded immediate payment of Rs10 million.

The bomb disposal unit reached the scene and removed the grenade.