KARACHI, March 8: A jobless man committed suicide in his home in Azizabad on Friday.
The police said that Asrar Ahmed Khan, aged 42, locked himself in a room of his house in Bhagoria goth and hanged himself from a ceiling fan.
Quoting family members, the police said that they knocked at the door of the room in which Asrar had locked himself, and when they failed to get response, Asrar’s brother broke open the door and found him hanging from the ceiling fan.
The police said that Asrar was unmarried, and he had been jobless for many months.
The family members did not allow the police to take the body to hospital for post-mortem.
CARJACKING: Twenty-two vehicles — eight cars and 14 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Friday, the police said.
Five cars were stolen. Three others were hijacked.
Three motorcycles were hijacked. Eleven others were stolen.
The police also claimed on Friday to have recovered six vehicles (JM-3777, ACK-362, LXZ-1329, L-3121, BA-9926, and NHA-5057) in the city.
ROAD ACCIDENTS: Reckless driving claimed three lives in the city on Friday.
The police said that an unidentified young man, who was in his mid-20s, was run over by a bus (JA-8887) of route 2-D near Tower on M. A. Jinnah Road in the morning. He was rushed to Civil Hospital where he died.
The police claimed to have arrested the bus driver, Mohammed Islam Khan, and impounded the bus.
An unidentified man, who was in his mid-50s, was crushed to death beneath the wheels of a rashly-driven passenger coach (Ilyas Coach-PE-3200) on I. I. Chundrigar Road.
The police arrested the coach driver, Mohammed Jameel.
Later, both the bodies were shifted to the Edhi’s morgue for identification, the police said.
A man died in an hit-and-run accident in North Nazimabad.
The police said that Khuda Bakhsh, aged 54, was knocked down by an unidentified vehicle on Rasheed Turabi Road. He was rushed to Jinnah Post- graduate medical Centre where he died.
