KARACHI, Oct 21: Unidentified persons shot dead a man in Bhatti Colony on Monday night.
Police said that Mohammad Tabraz, 30, was sitting outside his house in Bhatti Colony in the limits of the Sachal police station when two men shot him and fled.
The victim was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he died during treatment. Police suspect some personal enmity as work behind the killing. The victim was a labourer hailing from the NWFP.
SUICIDE: A girl committed suicide by hanging herself in Quaidabad on Tuesday.
Police said Rozina, 20, hanged herself from a ceiling fan in her house in Quaidabad near Cattle Colony in the limits of the Sukhan police station. Her body was shifted to the JPMC for the postmortem examination. The reason behind the suicide could not be ascertained.
ACCIDENT: An unidentified young boy was knocked down by an unidentified vehicle in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Tuesday.
Police said they received information from Abbasi Shaheed Hospital that an injured boy had been brought to the hospital from Gulshan. However, police added, he died during treatment.
Police said the boy, about five to six years old, was first brought to Ashfaq Memorial Hospital by an unknown man in his vehicle.
The inquiry officer said the hospital authorities told the man to take the boy to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. However, he reportedly dropped the boy in some backstreet behind the hospital and disappeared. A rickshaw driver found the boy and took him to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Police said the boy was wearing a grey colour shalwar-kameez suit and seemed an Afghan or Pukhtoon from appearance. His body was shifted to the Edhi morgue for identification.
Police suspect that the man who brought the boy to the private hospital might have hit the boy or he might have picked him up from the road after he was knocked down by another vehicle.
BETEL-NUTS SEIZED: Pakistan Customs’ Appraisement staff seized 40 metric tons of Betel-nuts being imported under the invoice of pulses.
Official sources said that a local importer had imported three containers of pulses, weighing 60 metric tons. Customs Appraiser, Saeed Dawood, in the Appraisement East Wharf, North Zone, was directed to inspect the containers. He seized 40 metric tons of Betel Nuts, which was not mentioned in the invoice to evade the duty and taxation amounting to Rs20 million.
The clearing agent and the importer had been picked up and handed over to the Appraisement Intelligence Branch for investigation.
