KARACHI, July 2: Three people, including a woman, were shot dead in separate incidents at various places here on Saturday. A youth was gunned down at the doorsteps of his house in Nazimabad. Police said Yaseen Arif, 22, a labourer from the NWFP, lived in a house sharing with other people in Paposh Nagar. Some unidentified people shot him early Saturday morning. He was shifted to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police believed personal enmity behind the killing.

In another incident, a woman died when a stray bullet hit her in the head while she was hanging clothes on the roof of her house in the Eidgah police limits.

Police said the woman, identified as Rehana Kamran, 30, was hit by the bullet while she was on the rooftop. Police said it was a stray bullet. However, the body was shifted to a hospital for autopsy and later handed over to the family for burial.

The bullet-riddled body of a man in his early 20s was found in a pool of blood at an isolated place in Ghousia Colony in the New Town police limits.

Police said torture marks were visible on the body. It was shifted to a hospital for autopsy where he was identified as Sajjad Ali Tanoli. Police said that Tanoli had a monetary dispute with someone. He had gone to demand his money but he was killed instead and his body dumped.