KARACHI, June 4: A customs officer committed suicide in the Clifton area Sunday. Police said Mohammad Ahsan Kafil, 38, a customs appraiser, jumped off the 13th floor of his apartment building situated on the seafront in the limits of the Boating Basin police station.
Police said Kafil had been worried for quite some time as he owed money to several people and they were demanding return of their money, police quoting family sources said.
He lived at the fourth floor of the Marine Driver. According to police, his family members took him to his friend’s house at the 13th floor to seek advice on how to face the situation.
However, Kafil, instead of heeding to the piece of advice his friend offered him, jumped from the balcony of the apartment, police added.
Police took the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for post-mortem examination.
The deceased hailed from Faisalabad, police added.
WOUNDED: A father and his two sons were injured when a UC Nazim opened fire at them in Lyari on Sunday.
According to area people, Nawab Khan was taking a water connection for his house in Daryabad. In the meantime, UC Nazim Ghulam Husain came there and objected to his activity. Nawab Khan showed him the permission issued by the naib nazim, but Ghulam Husain rejected his claim and opened fire wounding Nawab Khan and his sons, Salman, 15 and Fahad 17.
The injured were taken to the Civil Hospital for treatment. The whereabouts of the UC nazim could not be known.
