KARACHI, Aug 27: Decomposed bodies of a couple were recovered from a well in a sparsely populated area of Manghopir. Area people noticed a stench in a well and informed the police. The police retrieved the bodies from the well, which were badly decomposed.

Identity cards were also found from the clothes of the dead, which established their identification as Jan Mohammad, 43, and Ameena Khatoon, 32. A nikahnama was also found.

Sources said that a brother of Jan Mohammad had been traced and the police were trying to get information about the couple. The couple had children, who lived with their grandparents.

The bodies were sent to hospital for autopsy and the police started investigation into the incident.

The police could not find a motive behind the double murder or any immediate clue to the killers.

SHOT DEAD: A watchman and a driver were gunned down in separate incidents at various places by unidentified assailants on Saturday.

Some unknown gunmen knocked on the door of Sher Khan, 70. As he tried to open the door, the assailants opened fire and fled. Sher Khan died on the spot.

His body was shifted to a hospital for autopsy.

Police said Sher Khan was a watchman at an empty plot on Badshahi Road in Garden police limits.

The victim was a native of Bonair in the NWFP.

Police could not find the motive of murder but believed that it could be an outcome of personal enmity.

In another incident, a body with a bullet mark on its head was found on a link road to Super Highway in the Sohrab Goth police limits.

Police shifted the body to hospital for autopsy where the victim was identified as Munawar Dilawar, 35. He was a resident of Khamosh Colony and hailed from Kohat.

Police believed that a community feud was the motive behind the murder.

ACCIDENTS: Three people died in various accidents on Sunday.

A motorcyclist, Daud Shah, was hit by an unknown vehicle on Super Highway near Bismillah Hotel. He died on the spot.

Police could not find the driver responsible for the accident.

A man crossing the railway line near Landhi Railway Station came under the wheels of a passenger train and died on the spot. Identified as Noor Hussain, 65, he was a resident of some nearby locality.

A trailer driver was asleep in his stationed vehicle near the sea in Bin Qasim.

The trailer’s brakes suddenly failed and the trailer fell into the sea drowning the driver identified as Allah Dad, 35.

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