KARACHI: Three shot dead Housewife, faith-healer stabbed to death
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 13: Four men and a woman were killed in separate incidents in the metropolis on Tuesday.
In New Karachi, Tehseen, 25, a housewife, was stabbed to death by unidentified men at her home when she was alone.
Her son, Tahir, 4, who returned from school, raised an alarm when he found his mother lying in a pool of blood.
Police believed that the woman might have resisted some bandits, who stabbed her and fled. However, the police included her husband in the investigation process.
In Gadap, a faith-healer, Syed Mohammad Shah, 50, alias Hashim Lahooti, was stabbed to death by unidentified men. His body was found at a farm-house in the locality.
Police thought Shah might have gone with some people, who stabbed him to death. His body was lying at a farm-house and it was shifted to Abbasi Hospital.
The bullet-riddled body of a man, in his mid-twenties, was found at the Mewashah Graveyard.
Police said the body had multiple bullet wounds. The man might have been kidnapped, tortured and shot dead. The body was later dumped at the graveyard, the police said.
In another incident in Saeedabad, a man was shot dead and his body was thrown by killers on a road.
Police said Rahim Bux, 27, a minibus conductor, was kidnapped near his house by some occupants of a car. His bullet-riddled body was thrown subsequently by the same car, witnesses told the police.
Police sent the body to a hospital for autopsy and later handed it to his family for burial. The motive of the killing is yet to be investigated, the police said.
A partially decomposed body was found in a well in Ibrahim Hyderi police limits.
Police said Barak Ali, 45, went missing some 11 days back and his body was found in a well in a garden near Korangi Creek road.
The body was sent to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for autopsy.
Barak, father of six, had left his home telling his family that he wanted to retrieve debt from his friend. Since, then he had been missing. The police have been investigating the case, but no arrest has, so far, been made.
ACCIDENT: A 13-year-old student died after being knocked down by a bus in Saeedabad.
Azam Khan was returning home from a madressah and was crossing a road in Sector 9-D, when a bus of route No 20 (JA-2190) knocked him down. Azam died on the spot and his body was shifted to Abbasi Hospital.
ROBBERIES: Four robberies were reported to the police in different localities on Tuesday.
Bandits forced their entry into Ikram Ahmed’s home in North Nazimabad, Shahrah-i-Noor Jahan police limits, held the family hostage at gunpoint, collected cash, jewellery and valuables and fled with the loot.
Robbers entered a shop of Akram in Pak Colony, and robbed him of cash, mobile phones and belongings.
Dacoits entered the shop of Naveed Akbar in PIB Colony and decamped him with cash, a licensed revolver and valuables.
Brigands intercepted Abrar Ahmed in Clifton in Frere police limits, and deprived him of his cash and belongings.
