KARACHI, Oct 3: A young man committed suicide in North Nazimabad on Monday evening. Police said Waheed Abbasi, 38, was found dead on the first floor of his house in North Nazimabad on Tuesday evening.
North Nazimabad SHO Salman Waheed said that a 9mm bore pistol was found beside the body. The SHO said a bullet wound was found on the left of the chest. He said that apparently the incident was a suicide, but police would investigate the matter.
The family hails from the Northern Areas and Waheed Abbasi was in the furnace oil business.
On Tuesday he told his younger brother Nadeem that he was going to clean his pistol and took keys of the top floor. Shortly after it, a gunshot was heard by the family, the SHO said.
Police shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.
RECOVERED: The head of a woman was found in Korangi on Monday. Police said the head was found in K-Area. The head was three to four days old. Police suspected that it belonged to a torso found on Saturday in the limits of Zaman Town police station, a place not far away from the spot where the head was found on Monday.
Police were investigating the case, but identification of the victim had not been established.
ACCIDENT: A Rangers official died in a road accident in Model Colony on Monday.
Police said Bahawal Khan, a sepoy of the para-military force was crossing the road when a speeding truck hit him. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Police arrested the errant driver on the spot and impounded the truck.
CRUSHED: An unidentified young man was crushed to death by a locomotive at Drigh Road railway station.
Police said apparently the victim was trying to cross the rail tracks when he was hit by the train. Police shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for legal formalities.
