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KARACHI, Aug 3: Twenty-one vehicles — five cars and 16 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Saturday, police sources said.
Three cars were hijacked and two others stolen in different areas, including Saddar, Clifton, and Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
Five motorcycles were hijacked and 11 others stolen in various areas, including Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Federal B-Area, North Karachi, North Nazimabad, Korangi, and Saddar.
SHOT DEAD: A transporter was shot dead because of personal enmity outside his house in Baldia Town on Saturday.
Sanad Gul told police that his father, Sherbaz Khan, aged 60, was sleeping at a Dera outside his house and he was asleep inside the house in Habibabad in the morning, when he heard gunfire. He came out of the house and saw his father lying in a pool of blood and two unidentified armed men running away.
He told police that he could not identify the armed men. He took his father to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. Gul said that his father was a transporter and he owned a couple of minibuses which plied the G-3 route.
The Baldia Town police described personal enmity as motive for the killing.
BODY FOUND: Bullet-riddled body of an unidentified man was found in the bushes at a secluded place in Bin Qasim police limits on Saturday.
Police said that the body of a man, who was in his mid-thirties, was sent to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre for post-mortem. After autopsy it had been kept in the Edhi’s morgue for identification.
ROAD ACCIDENT: Sharea Faisal remained closed for hours on Friday night after an oil tanker collided with a taxi and overturned and its oil spilled on to the road.
Police said that an oil tanker (LSD-9492) rammed into a taxi near Karsaz and overturned. The taxi driver, identified as Wazir Akhtar, was injured. He was admitted to a hospital.
As the oil tanker overturned, the oil spilled on to the main Sharea Faisal causing problems for vehicles. The fire brigade and police reached the spot. They removed the taxi, oil tanker and oil from the road. Traffic resumed plying the road after 3-4 hours.
