KARACHI, Nov 2: Ten people, including four women and five children, were wounded when a low-intensity grenade went off inside their house in Kashmir Colony, Mehmoodabad, late Saturday night.
The victims said that the explosion occurred when a box of sweets was opened. Fire erupted and engulfed the entire house, they said, adding that area people helped in extinguishing the fire.
However, police believed that the grenade was hurled from outside the house, which landed on the asbestos roof and exploded with a bang. The roof collapsed and fire engulfed the entire house. Police argued that if the grenade had been exploded in someone’s hand, his or her hand could have been blown up.
Police and Edhi ambulances rushed to the spot in Kashmir Colony and took the injured to Civil Hospital while the children were shifted to the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) where the condition of two children was stated to be serious.
The injured were identified as Ghulam Rasool, head of the family; Khursheed Mumtaz, Kulsoom, Ameera Bibi, and Fayyaz Bibi, besides five children 11-month-old Naveed Mumtaz, Shahnawaz, 5, Nasreen, 11, Rubina, 6, and Cheena, 7.
Bomb disposal squad was of the view that the local-made grenade was used in the explosion that weighed 100 grams. The explosive contained the material that ignited fire.
Police said that Ghulam Rasool, who had two son-in-laws Mumtaz and Rafiq, alleged them of trying to kill his family over some dispute. Police said that in another incident, Ghulam Rasool had earlier alleged that Mumtaz had given them a box of sweets five or six days back. A woman of the family had taken some sweet and fainted. The sweet was then examined in a laboratory, which revealed that it contained poison. Police had picked up Mumtaz and his friend Bashir, however, they could not found any definite clue. Police have been looking for absconding Rafiq, the other son-in-law of Ghulam Rasool.
SUICIDE: A teenage boy set himself on fire inside his home within Brigade police limits.
Police said Kashif, 18, was highly depressed after he was admonished by his parents. In a fit of frustration, he locked himself in bathroom, sprinkled kerosene on himself and ignited fire. His parents broke the bathroom door after hearing his shrieks but by that time, Kashif had suffered serious burns and died on way to a hospital.
ACCIDENTS: A teenage was ran over by a truck in Site police limits on Sunday.
Police said Adeel Ali, 17, was going on his bicycle to a shop in Metroville No. 1, when a truck (QAF-9939) crushed him to death. The body was shifted to a hospital for autopsy.
A man died and a woman was injured when a speeding bus of route 4-L overturned near Gulshan-i-Mayamar More while negotiating a sharp turn on Sunday. The body and the injured were shifted to Abbas Shaheed Hospital.
VEHICLES: Bandits took away 114 vehicles — 37 cars and 77 motorcycles — in different parts of the metropolis during the last one week.
Police said 15 cars were hijacked and 22 were stolen in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Ferozabad, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Gulberg, Saddar, North Nazimabad, Defence and Clifton.
Forty motorcycles were taken away at gunpoint and 37 others were stolen in localities of Liaquatabad, Zaman Town, Gulshan-i- Iqbal, New Town, New Karachi, Buffer Zone, Garden, Eidgah, Gulberg, Azizabad, Saeedabad, Kharadar, Garden, TPX, Mochko and Korangi.
Police claimed to have recovered 35 stolen cars and 27 motorbikes during the week.
