July 06, 2008	Sunday	Rajab 2, 1429

KARACHI, July 5: While the police set up as many as 18 pickets in parts of gang-infested Lyari, rival gangsters continued on Saturday to exchange fire from their respective strongholds, witnesses said.

They said an alleged gangster was killed in a firing incident in Baghdadi and his accomplices took his body to the Civil Hospital.

Hospital sources said that a man was brought to the emergency department, but relatives took away the body after the doctors pronounced him dead.

They said a police officer of the Baghdadi police also reached the hospital after the medico-legal section reported the arrival of a victim with a bullet wound.

The sources said a police party went to Eidhu Lane to retrieve the body but was not successful.

Lyari SSP Raja Umar Khattab told Dawn that the situation in the violence-plagued vicinity had started returning to normal. “At least 50 per cent of push-cart vendors have resumed their business,” he added.

Bodies found

The body of a 24-year-old woman was found in a bogey at the City railway station.

It was shifted to the Civil Hospital where she was identified as Ruqayya, daughter of Irfan Ahmed, resident of Muslimabad, Landhi.

The police said the body was found in the bogey (No ACC/452/5), which was parked for repair a week ago.

They said the victim’s family told the police that the woman had left her house at 10pm. The police said they registered the case against unknown culprits on behalf of the state as the family did not want to take legal action for reasons best known to them.

The victim’s father is stated to be an employee of Pakistan Steel Mills.

Meanwhile, a partially decomposed body of a middle aged man was found in a gunny bag near Imam Askari School in Rizvia Society.The police said the body was at least five to six days old and the victim seemed to be in his 40s.