May 01, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 24, 1429

KARACHI, April 30: A mutilated body of was found dumped on a garbage dump near the National Sailing Club in Clifton on Wednesday.

Police said that the victim was a man in his mid-30s and his hand was trussed up. “It seems that the body was mutilated at the same place where his body was found,” SP Clifton Azad Khan said.

According to the police, the killers had thrown his head into water after stuffing it in a plastic bag. Clad in shalwar kameez, the victim appeared to be an Afghan, they said.

The body was shifted to the JPMC for postmortem examination and then to the Edhi morgue for identification.

Cop robbed

A head-constable was deprived of his official weapon in Kharadar area on Wednesday by two armed men who had earlier committed a dacoity in a bakery and a medical store.

Police said that the dacoits attacked and injured the head-constable posted in Fariya Street and decamped with his AK-47 rifle.

Accidents

A young man died after being hit by a dumper in the limit of the Sohrab Goth police station on Wednesday, adds PPI.

Police said the man, riding a motorcycle (No.KDV-8987), was on his way to his bike repairing shop located in the UP area when he was hit by the dumper (No.LSA-7268) at Shadbagh Mor. He died on the spot, police said.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he identified as Mohammad Hayat, 30, son of Ashiq.

His brother, Abdul Razaq, said Hayat was father of three and living in Ahsanabad, Gulshan-i-Maymar.

Driver of the dumper Yaqoob Khan was arrested.

In another accident, a teenager was killed by a hit-and-run vehicle belonging to the defunct Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) in Lyari on Wednesday, witnesses said.

Baghdadi police said Aftab, 17, son of Mohammad Mushtaq, was riding a bicycle when the truck hit him on Shah Abdul Latif Road.

The youth died on the spot and his body was shifted to the Civil Hospital. Later, the body was handed over to his family. Aftab was a student of class VIII.