KARACHI: Two men were shot dead while a boy was among four wounded in two separate incidents in the city on Saturday, officials said.

They added that a young man was gunned down while a nine-year-old boy was among four persons injured when neighbours fought over a trifle issue in a Gulistan-i-Jauhar locality.

The police said that the residents of Husain Hazara Goth attacked one another using guns after a scuffle, resulting in injuries to five persons, including the boy.

They were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where one of them, identified as Haroon Ayub, 45, died during treatment, said Dr Seemin Jamali, executive director of the JPMC.

Four other persons — Yasir Jamal, 9, Mohammed Ishaq, 35, Ghulam Mustafa, 40, and Adalat Shah — were admitted for treatment.

Dr Jamali said Adalat Shah received a bullet wound in the head but he was out of danger. Mustafa suffered wounds in the arm while the boy, Yasir, was discharged after first aid.

Sources said the injured, Mohammed Ishaq, was taken into custody by the police from the hospital as he was stated to be one of the suspects in the incident.

DIG East Amir Farooqi said that a dispute arose among the residents of the same locality over parking of a vehicle near a restaurant, which culminated in the murder of one person.

The main suspect had been arrested by the police.

Separately, a man was gunned down off the Superhighway early on Friday morning.

The police said that Fareed was on his way from his workplace at a godown when gunmen attacked him near Khadim Solangi Goth near Gulshan-i-Maymar. He sustained critical bullet wounds and was transported to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

The Edhi Foundation, whose ambulance shifted the body to the hospital, said the man was killed by suspected robbers on resistance.

However, a SITE Superhighway Industrial Area police official said that the motive for the murder was not clear. The officer added that relatives of the victim took away the body for burial in his native town Tando Adam and informed the police that they would get an FIR registered later on.

Imposter held in DHA

The Gizri police on Saturday arrested a citizen who was wearing a police cap and driving a car with a police sticker in the Defence Housing Authority.

Area SHO Rizwan Hyder said the police party intercepted a black Corolla (BQY 553) on Khayaban-i-Ittehad as its driver was driving with a hanging flag inside the car and wearing a police cap while an ‘SP’ sticker was pasted on the four wheeler. The vehicle’s blue and red lights were also on.

When the policemen asked him for identification, the driver identified himself as ‘police officer’ Mohammed Irfan Aqil, but he did not show any proof of it.

The police arrested him and registered an FIR against him under sections 170 (impersonating a public servant) and 171 (wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent) of the Pakistan Penal Code and seized the vehicle with the said articles.

Published in Dawn, February 9th, 2020