KARACHI, Oct 19: Three people, including a 22-year-old worker of the Sunni Tehreek, were killed on Sunday in violent activities in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.
They said the bullet-riddled body of the ST worker was found in the compound of a government girls’ school in Block 166, Sector 11-D, New Karachi.
The police said the body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where the victim initially remained unidentified.
Later, they said, the body was moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre after the victim was identified as Noor Mohammed, son of Abdullah, a resident of Sector 11-E. Sources at the JPMC’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim had received two bullets, one to the head and the other in the hip, from a very close range as the bullets went through his body.
No case was registered till late in the night.
Killed over enmity
A 37-year-old man was shot dead over a personal feud near his house in Orangi Town. A passer-by was also wounded in the firing. The Mominabad police said the victim, Hasan Badshah, son of Abbas Khan, was killed near Bismillah Clinic, Shah Mohalla, in Sector 10.
They said a case (FIR 410/2008) was registered against Sultan Kohati under Sections 302 and 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s second wife, Nadia.
The police said the victim, hailing from Mardan, had eight children from the first wife, and a son from the second one. They said he had married Nadia two years back and his two wives were living together.
The police said the suspect was a former neighbour of the victim’s. They quoted the victim’s wife as telling them that the suspect had had a quarrel with the victim and had given him threats of dire consequences.
The police said they had mounted a search for the suspect, but could not trace him till late night.
Man shot dead
A young man was found shot dead in the evening near the Fazal-i-Elahi Hospital in Korangi.
The victim’s body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where he was identified as Miskeenullah, son of Mohammed Iqbal.
The police said the victim, a resident of Saeedabad, Baldia Town, was a clerk at the terminal of route 1-D buses, near Korangi Crossing. No case was registered till our going to press.
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