February 23, 2008	Saturday	Safar 15, 1429

KARACHI, Feb 22: A 14-year-old girl committed suicide on Friday at her Baldia Town house.

The body of Nina, daughter of Younus Masih, was taken to the civil hospital for autopsy.

Saeedabad police said the girl, student of class seven, hanged herself from the ceiling fan with her headscarf.

The victim’s mother told police that Nina asked for a cold drink at around 4pm. She said she told her daughter that the area shop was closed and that she would bring her a cold drink after a little while.

However, the mother said, the girl became incensed, went to the room and hanged herself.

Suspect killed

A suspected robber was killed and his accomplice wounded and arrested on Friday in Federal B Area.

Gulberg police said the suspects were spotted in a lane near the Aziza Hussaini Hospital at around 10.30am by two policemen, who were patrolling the area on their motorbike.

They said the suspects, who were on foot, opened fire on the policemen when they tried to approach them.

The police said the constables also returned the fire, killing one of the suspects and wounding the other.

The 24-year-old injured suspect identified himself as Kashif and his dead accomplice as Mushtaq, both residents of Korangi.

The dead and the injured were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where sources said the dead man had received five bullets in his upper torso from a close range as most of the bullets pierced his body. They said the injured suspect sustained a bullet wound in the back.

The hospital sources said Kashif’s injury was critical as the bullet had stuck in his backbone.

A Gulberg police official told Dawn that the suspects were planning to take away a car from the vicinity.

He said the police also seized two TT pistols and 10 live rounds from them.