KARACHI: A suspected robber was lynched while another injured by an angry mob in New Karachi Industrial Area on early Thursday morning, police said.

Area SHO Mohammed Nawaz Gondal said two suspects allegedly snatched five cell phones from citizens within the remit of the Bilal Colony police station.

When they attempted to loot some young men sitting near Farooq-i-Azam Masjid in Sector-5-G, the victims put up resistance and the area people also joined them.

The people overpowered both the suspects and subjected them to severe beating and hit them with cemented blocks and other blunt instruments.

As a result, one suspect, identified as 30-year-old Sherry, was killed while his accomplice Farman Ashraf, 27, was arrested with severe injuries.

The body and the injured were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

The police claimed to have recovered five snatched cell phones, one motorcycle and weapons from their possession.

The SHO said five robbery victims had also approached the police and identified the killed and injured suspect.

Earlier on Wednesday a suspected robber was also lynched by an angry mob in Ittehad Town in the morning.

Woman found buried in house

A young woman was found dead and buried inside the courtyard of a house in Bin Qasim Town on Thursday, police said.

They added that the deceased woman, identified as 25-year-old Sajna Mayi, was ‘brutally’ tortured before being killed and buried inside a house in Ali Mohammed Brohi Goth.

Area SHO Inayatullah Marwat said that after receiving information from the neighbours, the police rushed to the spot and exhumed the body from the ground.

Her husband, Nawab Ali Chandio, and other family members had fled the house, the SHO said, adding that the woman appeared to have died two days ago.

The corpse was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

SHO Marwat said the victim’s father, Mashooq Ali Brohi, had told the police on phone from Khairpur that he suspected that his son-in-law Nawab and other family members had killed his daughter over some ‘family dispute’.

He also told the police that he would get an FIR registered against the nominated suspects on Friday.

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2024

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