KARACHI, Aug 6: An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was shot dead on Rashid Minhas Road on Tuesday night.
Police said Afzal, alias Soni, aged 25, was shot dead outside Raza Square on Rashid Minhas Road by three men. Witnesses identified the assailants as Kashif, Waseem and Jawwad.
The young man received multiple bullet injuries. He died on the spot. The body was sent to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for post-mortem.
The assailants escaped on a motorcycle.
A senior police official said the dead man had been absconding in the murder case of Fahim, whom he allegedly stabbed to death at Raza Square about three months back.
Bandits shot dead a young man in Manghopir early in the morning.
Police said three bandits came to a hill in Sultanabad, Manghopir, where labourers were working. The bandits opened fire at the labourers. The guard, Syed Ameer Ali, aged 22, returned the fire. During the exchange of fire, he was hit by a bullet. He died on the spot.
Police said one of the bandits, identified as Mohammed Usman, was also injured. He was arrested. He had been admitted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
CARJACKING: Fifteen vehicles — four cars and 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.
One car was hijacked. Three others were stolen.
Three motorcycles were hijacked. Eight others were stolen.
Police also claimed on Tuesday to have recovered four cars and five motorcycles.
DIES: A former policeman died after consuming countrymade liquor in TPX.
Sources at Civil Hospital said Amanullah, aged 32, was brought to the hospital in an unconscious state in the early hours of Tuesday morning by his friends. He died in the hospital in the evening. He was a dismissed assistant sub-inspector of the CIA, police said. He consumed countrymade liquor in TPX area on late Monday night.
INJURED: A young housewife suffered burns in her house in Orangi Extension.
Police said Nighat Parveen, aged 22, suffered serious burns while cooking in her house in Ghaziabad. She was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where she was admitted.
Sources at the hospital described her condition as serious, as she had received 72 per cent burns.
