KARACHI: A man was shot dead by armed robbers over resistance on the outskirts of the metropolis on Wednesday, police said.

Shah Latif Town SHO Mumtaz Marwat said that Rashid Khan was standing outside his home in Sector-22 B near Rehmania Masjid when armed muggers on a motorcycle appeared there. Khan offered resistance to their mugging attempt upon which one of them fired at him and rode away without looting anything.

The victim suffered a bullet wound in the leg. He died because of excessive bleeding, the SHO said.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for completing medico-legal formalities.

The SHO said apparently, it was a case of robbery related murder, but investigators were also looking into other possible motives.

Woman shot dead in Keamari

A 21-year-old married woman was murdered in the Keamari area on Wednesday.

The Clifton police said that Maria Babar was allegedly shot dead by her brother-in-law Bahadur Khan during a quarrel over some family dispute inside their home in Gulshan-i-Sikanderabad.

The suspect managed to escape from the crime scene.

Area police officer Agha Rasheed said investigators collected one spent bullet casing fired from a 9mm pistol from the crime scene.

He said the suspect’s wife and other family members were also present when the murder took place.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2022