August 21, 2008	Thursday	Sha'aban 18, 1429

KARACHI, Aug 20: Three people were killed in different incidents of violence in the city on Wednesday, police and witnesses said.

A 26-year-old man, Mohammed Shakil, son of Mohammed Ahmed, was found shot dead in Baldia Town No.3.

The police said the victim was asleep in his house in Qasai Mohallah, Junagarh, when unknown assailants pumped several bullets into his body and fled the scene.

Sub-inspector Abdus Sattar of Baldia Town police told Dawn that the victim was wanted in at least 11 cases of robberies and mugging. Shakil was an expelled worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and was a wage earner, he added.

He quoted the victim’s father as telling the police while lodging an FIR that his son had gone to sleep in his room at around 10pm on Tuesday. He said he heard gunfire at around 2am, but did not know at all that the target was his son.

Sources in the Civil Hospital, where the body was shifted for a post-mortem examination, said the victim had received at least six bullets in his upper torso from a very close range.

The police said they had collected six empties of an AK-47 assault rifle (Kalashnikov) from the scene.

Body found

A young man was found stabbed to death at a desolate place near Gutter Baghicha.

Pak Colony police said the body was lying in the bushes near KMC Flats and it was spotted by some children who were playing near the scene. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.

Hospital sources said the victim received multiple stabs in his upper torso.

They said the deceased, clad in blue shalwar-qameez, was aged between 18 and 20 years.

The body was kept at the Edhi Morgue at Sohrab Goth for identification.

Firing on jubilant crowd

A 30-year-old man was killed and another person injured in the small hours of Wednesday in an incident of firing in Lyari.

The victims were shifted to the Civil Hospital where the deceased was identified as Shahzad, son of Ghulam Haider, and the injured as Bilal, son of Mohammed Yaqoob, both residents of Gul Mohammed Lane, Kalakot.

Head constable Mohammed Azam told Dawn that people of the area were firing in the air in jubilation over Pervez Musharraf’s resignation. Someone attacked the jubilant crowd from an unknown direction killing Shahzad and injuring Bilal.

A case against unknown attackers under sections 302, 324 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code was registered on behalf of the state.