KARACHI, Sept 30: Four people were killed in acts of violence in different parts of the city on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.

Two people, traveling in their respective cars, were killed when two unknown gunmen opened fire on their vehicles on the Super Highway near Sohrab Goth.

The victims were identified as 50-year-old Rafiuddin, son of Nizamuddin, a resident of Gulshan-i-Maymar, and 70-year-old Mohammed Yousuf, son of Abdus Sattar.

The police registered a case (FIR 583/08) against two unknown attackers on the complaint of Mohammed Iqbal, who was travelling with victim Yousuf.

The complainant reported to the police that he with a relative was on way to the city when one of the two men standing by the road opened fire. He stated that the culprits opened fire at the car which was moving ahead. He said a bullet also hit his relative who died before he could be taken to hospital.

The complainant said the attacker disappeared from the scene after their swift operation.

The area SHO, Ijaz Rajpur, said that the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal enmity.

He said three bullets were fired on Rafiuddin’s car, while one bullet hit the occupant of the other car.

The SHO said that he did not think that the attackers were bandits and they wanted to rob the victims.

Milk-seller shot dead

A 40-year-old milk seller was shot dead in the Shama Arcade compound in the Soldier Bazaar police area.

The police said the victim, Mohammed Ayub, son of Abdur Rehman, had gone to the Shama Arcade to meet his friend where he was shot dead after Iftar.

They said the victim was the owner of a milk shop at Soldier Bazaar 2. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital, where sources said the victim had received a single bullet in the neck from a very close range.

Boy found dead

The body of an unknown young boy was found near an Afghan Basti off Northern Bypass.

Gulshan-i-Maymar police said the body was lying in the bushes at a desolate place and it was spotted in the morning.

The body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination.

Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim, who appeared to be in his early teens, died due to fatal wounds to his head with a heavy object. They said the body was at least three-day old.

The police said that a case against unknown culprits was registered on behalf of the state.

The body was later kept at the Edhi Morgue at Sohrab Goth as the victim remained unidentified.

Man kills self

A 38-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself to the head in Garden.

The police said the victim, Tahir Ali, son of Mohammed Ali, killed himself a little before Iftar at his ground-floor flat in the Rabia View Apartments near the Fawwara Chowk on Ghulam Hussain Qasim Road. They said the victim, father of a seven-year-old son, was alone in the flat at the time of the incident as his family had gone to his mother’s. The police said the man was in the milk business and ran a buffalo pen.

They quoted the victim’s family as telling them that Tahir Ali had become mentally unstable for the past few months.

However, the police said, the family did not tell the reasons or circumstances that led to the incident.

They said the victim’s family brought the body to the Civil Hospital but they took away it without a postmortem examination when the victim was pronounced dead.

Sub-inspector Mohammed Israr told Dawn that the police would bring back the body to the Civil Hospital for a postmortem examination for legal formalities.

He said it could not be ascertained if the weapon the victim used was a licensed one.

Bandits held

The Sir Syed Town police arrested three bandits in two separate raids and seized from them three unlicensed pistols.

The police said two bandits were arrested near Anda Mor during a snap-checking.

The suspected dacoits were identified as Mohammed Asif and Ramiz.

The police said the two dacoits had snatched a cellular phone and cash from Irfanul Haq on Monday in the vicinity after holding the victim hostage at gunpoint.

They said that two TT pistols and a motorcycle were seized from them.

They said another suspect was arrested when he with his two accomplices was planning to commit a robbery.

The police said a raiding party on a tip-off arrested Waqar alias Vicky.