KARACHI: Two commit suicide

Published March 25, 2006

KARACHI, March 24: Two persons committed suicide in different localities on Friday. A youth ended his life in his house in Ayub Goth. Police said that parents of Sameer were away for work. As they returned, they found the room locked from inside. After the lapse of a couple of hours, they knocked the door. Failing to get any response, they broke the door and found their son hanging. The reason of suicide is yet to be ascertained.

In PECHS, a housewife ended her life in her house near Pizza Hut.

Ferozabad police said that Shazia Sikandar, 24, was found dead in her house. Police said that Shazia had married Sikandar Ghani, a fabric trader, almost a year back. On Thursday night, the couple traded hot words and Shazia locked herself in a room. On Friday morning, family members found Shazia hanging with a ceiling fan.

POLICE CLUELESS: Police on Friday failed to locate the killers of the labour leader, who was shot dead when she had put up resistance to a bandit in Defence on Thursday.

The labour leader, Gulzar Begum, was intercepted at the traffic signal of Khayaban-i-Shamsheer by a bandit, who ordered her to leave the car. She had put up resistance and the bandit shot her dead. The unidentified bandit moved to another car (ADQ-290) and snatched it at gunpoint.

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