June 19, 2008	Thursday	Jamadi-us-Sani 14, 1429

KARACHI, June 18: Two people, including an assistant sub-inspector, committed suicide on Wednesday in separate parts of the city, police and hospital sources said.

Nabi Bux police said that ASI Mohammed Yousuf was posted in the traffic police and he was found hanging off the ceiling fan in his house at Garden Police Lines.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for autoposy. Hospital sources said the 35-year-old victim used a nylon rope for killing himself.

The duty officer at the police station, ASI Mohammed Hanif, said that ASI Yousuf, married with four children, had been mentally unstable for the past few months. He said Mr Yousuf had been promoted to the rank of ASI recently.

The police said that the body was dispatched to the victim’s hometown in Gujar Khan, Punjab.

A 25-year-old man committed suicide in Bagh-i-Malir.

Al-Falah police said victim Khalid Mehmood was mentally unstable and committed suicide by hanging himself with a ceiling tier.

They said that the victim was recently admitted to Sindh Government Hospital for his mental condition.

The police said the young man became mentally unstable after the death of his mother in 1999. They said the victim’s father, who hailed from Punjab, remarried after the death of his mother.

Labourer killed

A 36-year-old man was found murdered near Mustafa Masjid in Sukkun police area.

The body was found at a desolate place near his house. It was shifted to the Civil Hospital where the victim was identified as Mashooq Ali, son of Noor Mohammed.

Hospital sources said the victim received fatal wounds to his head by a blunt weapon.

The police registered a murder case against an unknown number of unidentified culprits on the complaint of the victim’s brother, Ghulam Mohammed.

Arms dealer shot dead

A 29-year-old man was shot dead near Zamzama in Clifton.

The victim was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he was identified as Abdul Majeed, son of Abdul Hakeem, resident of Punjab Colony. Sources said the victim was a licensed arms dealer.

Robbery

A gang of five bandits looted cash, jewellery and weapons from the residence of the additional special home secretary, Kamran Dost.

The additional secretary reported to the Taimuria police that five bandits barged into his residence, located in the compound of the defunct deputy commission office Central, in the small hours of Wednesday.

He said that the intruders held the inmates at gunpoint, scooped up three pistols, Rs15,000 and three sets of jewellery and decamped with the booty.

The police have registered a case against unknown bandits.