KARACHI: The killings of innocent citizens during street crime continued unabated as another young man was shot dead by armed robbers in the Quaidabad area on Monday morning.

Police said that Baqar Ali, 34, was sitting at his milk shop in Hamal Goth within the remit of the Shah Latif Town police station when armed motorcyclists emerged, held him at gunpoint and snatched his cell phone and cash and tried to escape.

However, the shopkeeper threw a brick towards the fleeing robbers in order to stop them but one of them fired a single shot and fled.

The shopkeeper suffered bullet wounds in the chest. He was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

His relatives told the media that he was a father of four and originally hailed from Punjab.

“My brother was very agitated over frequent robberies and he had also tried to catch the robbers in the past,” said grief-stricken brother Jaffer Ali.

Man shot dead over free-will marriage

A man was shot dead in Korangi Industrial Area late on Sunday night, police said on Monday.

They said that the victim, 35-year-old Sabir Husain, was gunned down at Murtaza Chowk. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Investigators had collected three spent bullet casings fired from a .30-bore pistol from the crime scene.

The police said Sabir had married a woman on their free will in Garhi Yaseen, district Shikarpur.

However, they believed that the murder appeared to be an outcome of the free-will marriage.

The police suspected involvement of the victim’s brother-in-law in the incident.

Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2024

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