KARACHI, Aug 25: Three people, including a woman, were shot dead on Monday in acts of violence in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.

Darakhshan police said a 45-year-old woman was shot dead at her Defence phase-5 residence allegedly by her former cook.

The victim, Naheed Gohar, wife of Misbah Uddin, was stated to be a singer and she was living with her 25-year-old son, Mohsin Ali, at Khayaban-i-Shamshir.

The Clifton Town police chief, SP Azad Khan, told Dawn that a 12-year-old maid of the victim identified the suspect, Adeel, who had come there along with two accomplices.

The police registered a case (FIR 416) against the victim’s former domestic servant and his two unknown accomplices on the complaint of the victim’s son.

Mohsin Ali reported to the police that he left the house in the morning while her mother was still sleeping in her room.

He stated that he was told that the former cook had come to the house at around 11.30am along with his two accomplices.

The complainant said that the 12-year-old maid opened the door on the knock of the suspect.

He said her mother came out of her room to find her maid being mugged by one of the intruders. He said suspect Adeel opened fire, fatally wounding the woman.

The woman was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where she succumbed to her bullet wound.

Hospital sources said the woman had been shot a single bullet from a close range as it went through her upper torso.

The police also found a bullet casing from the spot.

Young man shot dead

A 25-year-old man was shot dead in Manghopir.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where sources said the victim, Ibranhim, son of Ajmal Hussain, had received three bullets in his upper torso from a close range.

The police said the victim, resident of Sector 16 in Orangi Town, was a wanderer as his family had disowned him.

Killed in shootout

A suspect was killed in a shootout with police in Sohrab Goth.

The police said two policemen were patrolling the area on their bike when they spotted three suspects near a junkyard.

They said the policemen signalled the suspects to stop, but instead of stopping they opened fire on them in their bid to escape.

The police said the constables also returned fire and hit one of the fleeing suspects.

They said the two other suspects fled the scene under the cover of fire leaving behind their fatally wounded accomplice and the motorcycle.

The police said the suspect was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

Hospital sources said the victim was shot a single bullet in his left arm and he might have died due to profuse bleeding.

SHO Ijaz Ali Rajpur said the killed suspect was identified as Babu alias Naseer Ullah Magsi, who hailed from Balochistan.

He said the suspect had also been wanted by the police in a robbery case registered in 2007.

The SHO said a TT pistol and the motorcycle were seized from the suspect.

He said the bandits had snatched the motorcycle from a man at gunpoint in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on July 27, 2008.

Case registered

Maripur police registered a case against unknown miscreants who had put on fire a trailer carrying two armoured vehicles of the Nato forces.

One of the Nato vehicles was damaged to a great extent and the other partially when over two dozen miscreants set the trailer on fire near Gate No. 5 of the Maripur Truck Terminal on Sunday night.

DSP Faisal Noor told Dawn that the case (FIR 226/08) was registered against unknown miscreants under Sections 435 and 436 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

He said that no arrest was made so far in this connection, but the police had taken into custody at least seven people for ‘questioning’.