KARACHI, Dec 4: A young housewife committed suicide in North Nazimabad on Tuesday.
Police said Kausar, aged 20, wrapped herself in a blanket and set fire to it in her house in Kausar Niazi Colony, North Nazimabad. She suffered 91 per cent burns and was brought dead to the hospital, sources at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital said.
Police said Kausar was wife of Allahrakha, a labourer. On Monday, the couple had an argument over Eid shopping as the husband had expressed his inability to buy new clothes for the festival, police said.
The couple had been married for four years and their only child died of an illness a few years back, police said.
INJURED: Car hijackers shot and wounded an army major near the Clifton flyover.
Police said Major Tahir Mahmood, aged 35, was going towards Clifton in his Potohar jeep when two armed men intercepted him near the Clifton flyover and tried to hijack his jeep. When the army officer put up resistance to the car hijackers, they opened fire on him. The major suffered a bullet wound, and the bandits fled the scene leaving behind the vehicle, police said.
The army officer was rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre from where he was shifted to PNS Shifa, police said.
DIES: A young girl died when a pistol of her father went off accidentally in New Karachi Industrial Area.
Quoting the girl’s father, police said Naureen, aged 17, was cleaning her father’s pistol in their house in Khamiso goth in New Karachi Industrial when it went off accidentally killing her on the spot.
Sources at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital said Shah Saeed Khan brought his daughter Naureen dead to the hospital. A medicolegal officer said the girl had received a single bullet in the chest.
Police said they were interrogating the dead girl’s father.
ACCIDENT: A 15-year-old boy died in a road accident in Saeedabad.
Police said Imran was riding on a donkey-cart on Hub river road when his cart was hit by a recklessly-driven minibus of route A-25 (JB-2381). He was rushed to Civil Hospital where he died.
The minibus driver sped away after the accident, police said.
ROBBERIES: Two robberies were committed in the city on Tuesday, police said.
Armed men barged into the house of Hafeezullah, a retired government official, in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, held the family as hostage at gunpoint and got away with Rs9,000 and valuables.
Bandits stormed into Yusuf’s house behind Brigade police station, held the family as hostage at gunpoint and looted cash and valuables.
