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KARACHI, May 28: A government officer shot dead his wife Farida in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Tuesday evening.
Javed, a deputy director in the revenue department at Thatta, shot his wife Farida to death over disagreements in family affairs. Farida was Javed’s second wife. She had four children, three daughters and one son, by her first husband.
Police arrested Javed with a semi automatic rifle, the weapon of offence.
A mobile phone dealer was shot dead on Rashid Minhas Road on Monday night.
Police said Nadeem Husain was travelling in a car with his friends Tanveer and Lal Akbar, when they were ambushed by unknown assailants near Aladin Park on Rashid Minhas Road.
All the three injured were rushed to a nearby private hospital in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, where doctors pronounced Nadeem dead on arrival.
Tanveer and Lal Akbar were later shifted to JPMC for treatment. Panic gripped the area following the firing and the amusement park was closed before time, police said.
A young man was shot dead in his shop in Orangi Town on Tuesday.
Police said Sohail Akhtar, aged 35, was sitting in Irfan Medical Store in Sector 8-B in Orangi Town, when two unidentified men, riding on a motorcycle, came there and opened fire on him.
Sohail died on way to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, police said.
SUICIDE: A jobless young man committed suicide in his home in Orangi Extension.
Police said Abdullah alias Billu, aged 35, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his home in sector 14-B in Orangi Extension. He was alone in the house when he committed suicide.
Quoting the family, police said Abdullah had been jobless for quite some time past and was suffering from depression.
CARJACKING: Nineteen vehicles — nine cars and ten motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.
Three cars were hijacked. Six others were stolen.
Four motorcycles were hijacked. Six others were stolen.
Police also claimed on Tuesday to have recovered five vehicles in the city.
ACCIDENT: A young man died in a road accident in Orangi Town.
Police said Mohammed Javed Akhtar, aged 40, boarded a passenger coach in sector 13 in Orangi Town. After a short distance, he fell from the front gate and was crushed to death under the rear wheels of the coach (PE-2303). Police claimed to have arrested the coach driver.
