KARACHI: A suspected thief was beaten to death in Korangi on Saturday morning, police and rescue services said.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson said that the tortured body of a man, later identified as Mohammed Hussain, 24, was found from the roadside in Sector-50, Korangi and it was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Zaman Town SHO Malik Ashraf Awan said that some four persons caught the man at around 4am in the area over suspicions of him being a thief.

They subjected him to beating despite the fact that people in the vicinity asked them not to take law in their hands and hand over the suspect to police for legal action. However, they did not stop and beat him to death.

The SHO said that some witnesses told the police that the four men dumped the body outside his home at 6am and fled.

The suspects had been identified and the police would register a murder case against them, the SHO said.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2024