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KARACHI, Nov 22: A man was shot dead in what police claimed to be an ‘encounter’ at a township in Sohrab Goth police limits, in small hours on Saturday.
The Police claimed that they were on a routine patrolling and as they reached near a mosque in Jannat Gul township, the police van came under attack.
The police returned the fire and a man, later identified as Jahanzeb, 26, suffered bullet wounds and died on the spot, the police claimed, adding that a TT pistol was recovered from him.
His accomplices managed to escape the scene, the police said.
However, the area residents, disputing the police claim said that a group of people was sitting at a corner when a police van appeared and the officials coming out of the van opened straight fire without any justification or warning.
The people of the area, hearing gunshots, ran for their lives.
Jahanzeb, a labourer and an Afghan national, got hit by the police firing. However, the police denying the allegations, was sticking to its claim.
SUICIDE: Two men committed suicide at their houses in New Karachi and Korangi on Saturday.
A husband of two wives hanged himself at his New Karachi home on Saturday.
Police said Mohammad Aslam, 35, resident of Sector 5-F, had his second marriage some two years back. He had five children from his first wife. The two wives lived together in one house, where both the women had frequent quarrels, which perturbed Aslam, who in a fit of depression, hanged himself.
The police reached the spot and shifted the body to a hospital for autopsy.
The police said it was a case of suicide. The body was later handed over to the family for burial.
In another incident, a man in his early 20s, hanged himself in his house in Korangi Industrial Area after his wife had left his house.
Police said Sher Khan, 21, was disturbed after his wife exchanged hot words with him and left the house for her parents’. Father of a child, Sher Khan, went to the house of his in-laws to appease his wife and tried to convince her to return home, but his wife refused to return.
Khan got frustrated and in a fit of anger, hanged himself with a ceiling fan in his room. Someone went to his house from the neighbourhood and discovered him hanging. The police reached the spot and shifted the body to a hospital for autopsy.
