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KARACHI, Oct 4: A housewife was killed by unknown persons in the Quaidabad area on Wednesday, police said.
A duty officer of the Quaidabad police station described the incident as an act of robbery in which the bandits also killed the woman. The incident occurred in Muzaffarabad Colony.
He said Rukhsana, wife of Gul Muhammad, was found strangulated in the house.
The number of bandits who came to the house is not clear, but they took away Rs100,000 from the house, the duty officer said.
Police said that at the time of the incident the victim’s husband, a security guard, was at his workplace and their three children were in school.
It was the children who discovered the body of their mother and informed the neighbours.
Subsequently, police shifted the body to the Jinnah Hospital for the post-mortem examination.
Police have detained a relative of the couple, Sarfaraz Khan. He had recently sought loan from them.
ROBBERY: The in-laws of a former test cricketer were deprived of cash and valuables by bandits in the DHA area.
Police said the armed suspects barged into the house of Saeed Anwer’s in-laws in DHA Phase I. They took away cash and gold jewellery and cellphones worth about Rs500,000.
FIRE: A fire broke out in a godown in the Shershah on Wednesday.
The chief fire officer said that the fire broke out in a godown containing newsprint rolls and electronic goods. He said the fire broke out at around 2.22pm and soon it spread. Eighteen fire tenders were employed in the fire fighting operations.
The chief fire officer said the godown reportedly belonged to a newspaper, but so far no responsible official of the organisation had come forward.
