KARACHI, July 28: Five people were killed and a young man committed suicide in different parts of the city on Monday, police and hospital sources said.
A 50-year-old fresh milk trader was shot dead and his associate was wounded by bandits on a link road near Steel Mills.
Steel Town police said that Haji Mujahid Hussain along with his friend, Mohammed Rafique, was on way to the Super Highway in his car when some bandits intercepted them on Steel Town Link Road. They opened fire on them when they posed resistance and took away a cellular phone, cash and a licensed pistol of the victim.
The victims were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Hospital sources said that the trader was brought dead. They said he received a single bullet in his chest from a point blank range as the bullet went through his body. Rafique sustained a bullet in his arm, the sources said.
The victims were residents of Cattle Colony.
No case was registered till late as the police said they were waiting for a complainant to register an FIR.
Man found dead
The trussed up body of a young man with two bullets wounds in his head was found near railway tracks in Model Colony.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he was identified as Tauheed, son of Rasheed.
Police said the victim was the resident of Khokrapar and he had left his house at around 11:30pm on Sunday. They said the 25-year-old was jobless for the past many months.
The police registered a case against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s brother.
Car falls off bridge
A 32-year-old transporter was killed after his car skidded and fell off the Native Jetty Bridge.
Jackson police said that Yaqoob, son of Fazal Karim, was on his way at around 12:30am when his car skidded and fell down breaking the fence. He was shifted to the Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
The police said the victim, father of two minors and a resident of Agra Taj Colony, hailed from Azad Kashmir.
Body found in jeep
The body of an unidentified young man, clad in cream-coloured trousers and shirt, was found in a Parado jeep near Water Pump Chowrangi.
It was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where sources said the victim was in his mid 30s. The sources said the man was shot a single bullet to his head from a point blank range.
Yousuf Plaza police said the Prado bore a fake registration number.
Hammered to death
A 50-year-old man was found hammered to death in Gulshan-i-Ghazi.
Mochko police said Akbar Noor, son of Hazrat Noor, was a brick-maker and he was asleep outside his house when unknown culprits killed him with a heavy object. The body was later shifted to the Civil Hospital.
Sources in the hospital said the victim had received multiple injuries to his head by a blunt weapon, most probably a hammer.
The police said the incident seemed to be motivated by some personal enmity and registered a case on the complaint of victim’s son, Mohammed Zahid.
Afghan national killed
A 52-year-old Afghan national was killed and his son was wounded in an ambush near Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth.
Police said the victim and his son were going back to Afghanistan when they were attacked near a bus stop. The deceased, identified as Abdullah Dad Khel, and his injured son, Shahzad Dad Khel, were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Hospital sources said Abdullah, who had received two bullets in his upper torso, was brought dead to the hospital. However, they said, the condition of his son, who sustained a bullet in his right ribcage, was improving.
Police said the incident was motivated by personal enmity as the injured man named the suspects in the FIR. They said that Rajab, Ghani and Gul Badeen were named in the FIR and the police were making efforts to track them down.
Suicide
A young man committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train near Drigh Road Railway Station.
Witnesses said the man was clad in dark grey shalwar-qamees. He stood for a moment before moving quickly onto the track as the train reached closer.
The in charge of railway police kiosk at Drigh Road railway junction, Sub-inspector Mohammed Irshad, told Dawn that 30 people had died on the tracks during the past one year. “Twenty-two committed suicide while the remaining died in accidents,” he added.
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