December 04, 2008	Thursday	Zilhaj 5, 1429

KARACHI, Dec 3: A 30-year-old man was shot dead late on Tuesday night in Korangi by two bandits who took away the victim’s cellular phone and Rs3,000.

The Awami Colony police said that the victim, idenfitied as Habibullah, son of Sher Afzal, a resident of Korangi No 2½, was going to his house on motorcycle when he was waylaid at around 11.45pm.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a postmortem. Sources at the hospital’s medical section told Dawn that the victim received a bullet to his head from a very close range as the bullet went through the skull.

They said the victim was a medical representative in a pharmaceutical company.

Wounded in Lyari

Three people were wounded in a firing incident in mafia-infested Lyari.

The wounded were shifted to the Civil Hospital where they were identified as Abdur Raheem, 22, Aurangzeb, 15, and Ali Mohammed, 22. The police said the victims were standing at Shah Baig Lane at around 5pm when they were wounded in crossfire between rival gangsters.