KARACHI, Feb 15: Reckless driving claimed two lives in the city on Saturday.

A woman was run over by an unidentified vehicle in sector 5-D of Surjani Town. The police sent the body to a hospital where the woman was identified as Shama Naz, aged 35.

An unidentified man, who was in his forties, died when he was knocked down by an unknown vehicle on Sharea Faisal in Ferozabad police limits.

ARRESTED: The police arrested on Saturday an assistant sub- inspector of police for killing an expatriate Pakistani in Korangi on Friday.

Abdul Razzak, who worked in Austria, was robbed and shot dead in Korangi on Friday morning, soon after he arrival at Karachi from Austria. Razzak was resident of Sialkot.

Razzak’s nephew Malik Javed, who arrived in Karachi after receiving the news of his uncle’s death, told the police that Razzak’s brother Ejaz Shah, who lived in Sialkot, asked one of his friends, ASI Tariq Shah, to arrange an air ticket for Razzak for Sialkot. The police raided ASI Tariq’s house and recovered the belongings of Razzak from there. The police arrested ASI Tariq Shah for killing Razzak.

KILLED: The body of a man was found hanging in his hut at Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Saturday.

The police said Abdul Karim informed them that the body of his son Sher Ali, aged 30, was hanging from a bamboo in his hut built on an empty plot in Block-8 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The police sent the body to the JPMC.

The police believed the man did not commit suicide but he was killed and the killer/killers hanged him to make it look like suicide.

Karim Dad, Sher Khan’s father, told the police that his son’s wife, with four children, went to her parents’ home about four days back and demanded divorce. Upon Sher Khan’s refusal to divorce his wife, his brothers-in-law Hayat Khan and Rozi Khan allegedly killed Sher Khan.

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