KARACHI, Nov 21: A 34-year-old bank employee and his four-month pregnant wife were found shot dead on Wednesday in their house in Khuda Ki Basti.

Surjani Town police said the couple, who were first cousins, had been living in a rented house since their arranged marriage 10 months ago.

One of their relatives called police when he grew suspicious after finding the couple’s phones switched off for several hours.

The SHO said that a police party along with the victims’ relatives entered the victims’ house from the rooftop of the adjacent house and found Kashif Zamir and his wife Mehwish shot dead.

The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where sources said both the victims received a bullet to their foreheads from a very close range.

The inspector said the bodies were lying side by side in the victims’ bedroom. “A suicidal note saying ‘we are killing ourselves at our own’ and a TT pistol were also found from the scene,” he added.

He ruled out the possibility of the couple being killed by robbers as all valuables were found intact. He said the victims’ relatives believed that there was no need to register a murder case as the couple had committed suicide. “But it didn’t appear to be a suicide as the pistol was lying on the chest of Kashif,” he said, adding that a murder case had been registered on behalf of the state.