0
KARACHI, Feb 1: Twenty-six vehicles — 15 cars and 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Friday, police sources said.
Six cars were hijacked and nine others stolen in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Ferozabad, Sharea Faisal, Mochko, New Town, and other police areas.
Seven motorcycles were hijacked and four others stolen in Ferozabad, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Buffer Zone, and other police areas.
However, the spokesman for the police claimed that 12 vehicles — eight cars and four motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Friday.
He also claimed the recovery of two stolen cars (R-2163, KAK-2356) and three motorcycles (KCT-6271, MNG-3224 and KCD-8012) in the city.
KILLED: Three men were killed in the city on Friday.
Bandits shot a policeman to death in Garden area in the morning.
The police said that Mohammed Farooq, aged 36, was asleep in his home and he woke up hearing noise outside. As he came out of his home on Mirza Adam Khan Road, four bandits, who were heading towards him, opened fire on him and escaped.
The policeman was rushed to Civil Hospital in serious condition where he died.
Farooq, who was posted at Mehmoodabad police station, had challenged the bandits who shot him while fleeing after committing a robbery in a nearby house, a duty officer at Garden police station said.
Unidentified assailants shot a man to death in his home in North Karachi in the morning.
The police said that Khalid Raza, aged 36, was shot dead in his home in sector II-C of North Karachi by unidentified assailants. The victim was alone in his home when the assailants barged in. The assailants left valuables untouched. The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.
Unidentified men killed an elderly man in his home in North Karachi in the limits of Sir Syed Town police.
The police said that three men barged into the home of an elderly couple in Sector 15-A of North Karachi. They tied Afrozi Begum, aged 60, with ropes on the ground floor and slit the throat of her husband, Farasat Ali Khan, aged 65.
The assailants fled the house leaving Farasat in a pool of blood.
The dead man’ wife, who had fainted, later regained consciousness and went to a neighbour’s home and called the police.
The police informed the Edhi Foundation, which sent the body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.
The police said that it might be a robbery attempt, as the dead man’s sons were doing jobs in Saudi Arabia.
