September 25, 2008	Thursday	Ramazan 24, 1429

KARACHI, Sept 24: Two people were killed on Wednesday in acts of violence in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.

Jackson police said that a 30-year-old man was shot dead in the small hours of Wednesday near Seaman Hospital in Keamari.

They said the victim, Mohammed Banaras, son of Mohammed Azam, was a waiter at a roadside restaurant.

The police said that the victim was at his work and was killed near the restaurant when he went out to deliver tea at a nearby place. They said the attackers fled the scene immediately after their swift operation.

The police said the fatally wounded man died on his way to the Civil Hospital where a postmortem examination was carried out. Sources at the medico-legal department told Dawn that the victim received three bullets in his upper torso from a very close range.

They said that a case (FIR 435/2008) against two unknown culprits was registered under Section 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) on the complaint of the husband of the victim’s sister (brother-in-law), Zahir Shah.

The police said that the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal enmity as the victim hailed from a remote part of the NWFP.

Body found

A decomposed and partially mutilated body was found at a desolate place in Manghopir.

The police said that the body was stuffed in a gunny bag and it was lying at an uninhibited place near Northern Bypass some 17 kilometres from here.

The area SHO, Inspector Baharuddin Babar, told Dawn that the body was at least 25 days old and wild dogs had mutilated it. He said the victim, clad in black shalwar-qamees, appeared to be a Gilgiti in his mid 30s.

Inspector Babar said that the culprits had covered the victim’s face with a towel and strangled him with a piece of rope, which was also seized as a weapon of offence.

He said the body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy and it was later handed over to the Edhi Trust for burial as the victim was unrecognizable. He said the incident was apparently motivated by a personal feud.

The SHO said that a case (322/2008) under Section 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code was registered against unknown culprits on behalf of the state.