July 10, 2008	Thursday	Rajab 6, 1429

KARACHI, July 9: A 22-year-old mother and her infant son were found shot dead in their Nazimabad house on Wednesday morning, police and witnesses said.

Rizvia police said the woman was a daughter-in-law of late Afzal Anwar, a former MPA of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

The police said they had received the information at around 9am about the presence of bodies in a house in Sector 1-D of Nazimabad No 1. They shifted the bodies of Saira and her one-month-old son, Khalid, to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

The woman was shot three bullets in her upper torso and her child a single bullet in his chest, hospital sources said.

Her husband, Zain Afzal, was not traceable, police claimed, saying that a case against unknown culprits was registered on a complaint of Saira’s bother.

Robbers kill guard

Bandits killed a private security guard and injured two others during a Rs1.5million robbery near KPT Underpass in Clifton.

Area police said that a money changer’s van was intercepted by the bandits, who held the two guards and the cashier hostage at gunpoint. As one of the guards struggled with the bandits, they became jittery, opened fire and decamped with Rs1.5 million.

The deceased was identified as Ghulam Nabi, and the injured as Hafeez and Nasir.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-old man and his five-year-old nephew were killed by a hit-and-run vehicle near Godown Chowrangi in Korangi. The bodies were shifted to the JPMC where the deceased were identified as Farooq Ahmed and Nauman.