KARACHI, Oct 15: Bandits shot two young men to death in the city on Tuesday.
A young shopkeeper was shot dead at his shop in Malir.
Police said bandits shot dead Imtiaz Ahmed, aged 27, when he put up resistance to them in Indus Mehran Society in Khokhrapar police limits. Three armed men attempted to loot Imtiaz at his shop on Bankwali Gali near Saudabad chowk. Imtiaz, who is also a building contractor, put up resistance to the bandits who fired on him and escaped. Imtiaz was rushed to a hospital where he died.
However, witnesses said Imtiaz caught hold of one of the bandits, who was riding on a motorcycle, upon which the bandits fired twice in the air to intimidate Imtiaz into freeing their accomplice. Witnesses said a police mobile was stationed round the clock hardly 50 yards from the place of incident. But policemen present in the mobile did not take notice of the incident. Witnesses said the policemen must have heard the sound of gunfire, but they remained unmoved. Had police taken timely action, Imtiaz would have been saved.
Bandits shot dead another young man in Mowachh goth. Five bandits barged into the house of Imtiaz Ali, aged 35, a truck driver. Imtiaz woke up as the bandits entered the house. The bandits made Imtiaz and his wife hostage at gunpoint and collected cash, jewellery and other valuables. As the bandits tried to snatch the earrings of Imtiaz’s wife, he tried to put up resistance to the bandits, who pumped two bullets into his chest and escaped with the loot.
Imtiaz was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. He was married five months ago.
SUICIDES: Two young women committed suicide in the city.
Rukhsana, aged 22, killed herself by talking a heavy dose of a pesticide in her house in Naryanpura, Ranchhore Lines.
Her family told police that they did not want postmortem examination and legal formalities as they were convinced that Rukhsana had committed suicide.
The cause of suicide could not be ascertained.
Farah Naz, aged 30, resident of Korangi, whom police described as mentally sick, died when she fell to the ground from the fourth- floor apartment of her sister’s in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. She died instantaneously.
She came to stay at her sister’s apartment, police said.
Her nephew Faisal Ahmed told police that they did not want post-mortem and legal formalities as his aunt was mentally sick, and she had attempted suicide in the past.
