KARACHI, March 2: A guest at a wedding ceremony was killed when some people resorted to firing in jubilation. The ceremony pertained to the wedding of Keamari Town nazim’s paternal cousin.

The victim, identified as Rehmanullah, 34, was taken to Civil Hospital. Sources at the hospital said the bullet had pierced through his skull. Police have registered a case of accidental murder, but made no arrests.

In another incident, body of a 25-year-old man was found lying in a launch in the Docks police limits.

He was axed to death. The body was shifted to Civil Hospital where the victim was identified as Mohammed Zada, hailing from Dir.

The police suspect personal enmity as motive behind his murder.In Site area, a watchman of a textile mill was shot dead by unknown assailants. Police said the victim, Luqman Gul, 25, was on way to his Qasba Colony residence after leaving his place of work when two persons on a motorcycle shot him near Valika Hospital.

The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors said the victim had received three bullets, two in the head and one in the right leg.

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