KARACHI: Man commits suicide

Published April 20, 2004

KARACHI, April 19: A fifty-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in Rizvia Society. Police said that they were informed that stench was emanating from a house in Rizvia Society. When police reached the area and opened the house, they found the decomposed body hanging from the ceiling fan. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for postmortem.

KILLED: A man was killed in Model Colony on Monday morning. Police said that Abdullah, 36, was asleep in his house in Nishterabad when unknown men barged into the premises and axed him to death. Police ruled out dacoity as a possible motive saying that killing was result of some personal enmity.

SHOT DEAD: A young man was shot dead by bandits in Buffer Zone early Monday morning. Police said that unknown armed men barged into a house and held the inmates hostage at gunpoint. As they started collecting valuables Sohail Ahmed resisted. On his resistance, they shot at him and fled.

Later, the wounded man was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Hospital sources attributed profuse loss of blood as cause of his death.

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