KARACHI, July 19: A man and a woman were killed in separate incidents in different localities of the city on Saturday.
A man was shot dead by some unidentified men in Gulistan-i-Johar. Police said the man, later identified as Shafqat Masih, 28, hailed from Multan. The body was shifted to a hospital for autopsy. The police believed the man was killed over some dispute.
A woman was shot dead at her home in the Mohammadi Colony by unidentified men on Saturday morning.
Police said some unidentified armed men stormed into the house of Zainab Khatoon, 35, in Azad Mohalla in the TPX police limits. Police believed that the woman resisted the invaders, who shot her dead and fled. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital in the morning but the postmortem examination could not be conducted till evening due to absence of woman medico-legal officer.
Zainab was mother of four and her husband, Usman Ghani, was a fisherman, who was on a fishing trawler in Gwadar. The police kept the body in a cold storage and were waiting for her husband to return. The police said it was yet to be investigated as to whether it was an attempt of robbery or an outcome of an old enmity.