KARACHI, July 4: Armed men shot dead a woman lawyer who along with her children was standing outside her house in Korangi on Tuesday night.
Police said that the woman, Yasmeen Jehangir, 45, and her children had come out of the house to get some fresh air during a power failure in Korangi 2 ½ area. Two persons riding a motorcycle appeared there, fired at her and fled. Neighbours rushed the victim to the Jinnah Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Korangi TPO Furrukh Bashir said police transferred the case to the investigation wing after receiving the information about the incident from the hospital.
Quoting Afzal Wajid, a brother of the deceased, the investigation police said that her husband, Aslam Qureshi, had been killed in an incident of terrorism in 1993 in Gulberg.
They said that the woman’s killers were wearing helmets when they attacked her at around 1.30am.
Policeman killed
In Baldia Town, a head constable was shot dead on Wednesday morning.
Mohammad Shahid, 45, was on his way to work when the assailants attacked him in Baldia No 4, a duty officer at the Baldia police station said. The victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The deceased was posted at the Mauripur police station in the investigation wing. Police suspect some personal enmity being a possible motive behind his murder.
Death from suffocation
A bank guard died from suffocation after being brought to a hospital from Bank Al-Habib’s Napier Branch on Wednesday morning. The guard, Abdul Rehman, 45, was trying to retrieve goods while a fire, believed to be caused by an electrical short-circuit, had engulfed the branch.
