Policeman, relative gunned down in PIB Colony

Published October 4, 2021
A senior police officer said that ‘apparently’ the double murder was motivated by some personal enmity. — Reuters/File
A senior police officer said that ‘apparently’ the double murder was motivated by some personal enmity. — Reuters/File

KARACHI: A policeman and his close relative were gunned down allegedly by a serving policeman in PIB Colony on Sunday evening.

Area police said that Waheed Gul, 43, and Naeem Shah, 42, were gunned down in Ghausia Colony.

They added that Head Constable Gul, posted in the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Karachi police, along with his relative was sitting at a teashop when Constable Amjad arrived there, started firing and fled.

They sustained multiple bullet wounds and were taken to the nearby Liaquat National Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival, said an Edhi Foundation spokesperson, whose ambulances later took the bodies to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

Investigators collected spent bullet casing as well as a ‘clear’ CCTV footage from the spot.

A senior police officer said that ‘apparently’ the double murder was motivated by some personal enmity.

The police were conducting raids to arrest Amjad.

Separately,a septuagenarian was gunned down in Qadhafi Town.

Shah Latif Town SHO Mumtaz Marwat said that Saeed was killed over some personal enmity near a private school. The body was taken to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.

‘Muggers’ held for looting Rs2m

Police on Sunday arrested two suspected robbers in the Bin Qasim area.

They said that the duo had snatched over Rs2 million from a Chinese national and killed a man in another incident.

Malir SSP Irfan Bahadur said that Mohammed Saleh and Ihsan Ali had snatched Rs2.3m from the Chinese near Port Qasim on Aug 31 and a case was registered on the complaint of the foreigner.

He said the held suspects had also killed a citizen when he resisted their robbery bid a few months ago.

“They were involved in dozens of robberies mostly carried out in Malir and Korangi districts,” he said.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2021

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