September 23, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 22, 1429

KARACHI, Sept 22: A 45-year-old man, father of eight, committed suicide on Monday in Orangi Town.

The Pakistan Bazaar police said that Mohammed Salim, son of Raja Afzal, a labourer, killed himself by hanging himself off the girder at his Raja Tanveer Colony house in the small hours of Monday.

They said that the victim’s family reported the matter to the police after they found the man hanging in the morning.

The police said that the body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination and later it was handed over to the family.

They said that the man became mentally unstable since he sustained a head injury in a traffic accident two months ago.

Body found

The trussed-up body of an unknown man, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found near Ramzan Goth.

The Sachal police said that the area people spotted a gunny bag in the bushes at a desolate place at around 8am and reported the matter to the police.

They said that the body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a postmortem examination.

Sources at the JPMC’s medico-legal department told Dawn that the body bore several marks of torture.

They said that the victim received two wounds in the chest and neck either by bullets or by a sharp-edged weapon.

The sources said that the victim, clad in a light grey shalwar-qamees, appeared to be in his mid 40s.

The body was later kept at the Edhi Morgue for want of identification.

Teenager killed

A 15-year-old motorcyclist was killed by a hit-and-run truck at Murtaza Colony in Landhi.

The body was shifted to the JPMC where the deceased was identified as Faisal, son of Manzoor.

The Landhi police said the victim’s family had taken away the body from the hospital without legal proceedings before the police reached the hospital.

57 vehicles taken away

As many as 57 vehicles – 12 automobiles and 45 motobikes – and 24 cellular phones were taken away in parts of the city.

Figures collated from the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee showed that four cars were snatched at gunpoint in the police limits of Darakhshan, Gulsitan-i-Jauhar, Korangi and Mubina Town.

Besides, eight cars were stolen in the limits of Aziz Bhatti, Clifton, Ferozeabad, New Town, Preedy, Sharah-i-Noorjahan and Taimuria.

The figures showed that at least five motorcyclists were deprived of their vehicles at gunpoint by the bandits within the police jurisdiction of Gulberg, Khokrapar, Sharah-i-Noorjahan, Sharifabad and Soldier Bazar.

The bike thieves took away 35 motorcycles in the limits of Ferozabad, Preedy, Site, Soldier Bazar, Brigade, Clifton, Defence, Federal B. Industrial Area, Frere, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Khawaja Ajmer Nagri, Korangi, Liaquatabad, Mithadar, Nabi Bux, New Karachi Industrial Area, New Town, Risala, Samanabad, Sharea Faisal, Sir Syed Town, Sohrab Goth and Surjani.

24 cellular phones taken away

Moreover, as many as 24 mobile phone handsets were taken away in parts of the city.

At least 10 cellular phones were snatched at gunpoint within the limits of Garden, Airport, Ferozeabad, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Kalri, Korangi and Sohrab Goth.

At least 14 cellular phones were stolen in the police precincts of Gulberg, Korangi, Sharae Faisal, City Courts, Eidgah, Federal B. Industrial Area, Ferozeabad, Site, Gulbahar, Gulshan-i-Maimar and Hyderi.