KARACHI, Sept 22: A man strangled his 20-year-old wife early Saturday morning in Kashmir Colony. The suspect, a labourer by profession, has been arrested.
The Mehmoodabad police said that Mohammed Asghar, hailing from Bahawalpur, strangled his wife, Hasina Mai, and tried to flee but a relative of the victim caught him and handed him over to the police.
They said that the maternal grandmother of the victim woke Asghar up in the morning for Sehri. Asghar went out to bring yogurt and the old woman later found her granddaughter dead in her bed, it was added.
She immediately raised an alarm and sent one of her relatives, Muneer, after Asghar. The relative caught the suspect, who was later handed over to the police.
The police said the man told the investigators that he strangled his wife in a fit of rage after they had quarrelled over some domestic issue.
Body found
The bullet-riddled body of a 55-year-old dentist was found in Korangi Industiral Area.
The Shah Latif Town police said Dr Hameedullah, resident of Gulshan-i-Hadeed, had been missing since Thursday.
The body had been shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Hospital sources said that the victim had received three bullet wounds from a very close range.
The victim’s son, Asif Hameed, said they had no enmity, adding that they belonged to the minority Ahmadi community.
Meanwhile, a gang of nine bandits looted Rs2.5million from a bank branch in the jurisdiction of the Azizabad police station on Saturday morning, add agencies.
