December 08, 2008	Monday	Zilhaj 9, 1429

KARACHI, Dec 7: A 70-year-old doctor was killed and his 50-year-old niece, also a doctor, was injured when a fast moving car knocked them down near Dawood College of Engineering and Technology here on Sunday, police and witnesses said.

The witnesses said that Dr Ibrahim Soorma, a heart surgeon, and Dr Zainub Soorma, were crossing the road when a Suzuki Liana, bearing registration number ALZ-807, hit them at around 4pm. The elderly doctor died instantly, they said.

Later, the body and the wounded woman were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where sources at the medico-legal department said that both legs of Dr Zainub were broken in the incident.

The family said that Dr Ibrahim, a bachelor and resident of PECHS Block-2, along with Dr Zainub, was walking to the nearby house of his paternal nephew, Ahmed Soorma, to deliver him Rs50,000 for buying sacrificial animals.

The SP of the Jamshed Quarters police, Javed Akbar Riaz, told Dawn that the driver of the car brought the body and the wounded woman to the hospital, while his associates took away the car from the hospital. “The driver has been arrested and efforts are being made to track down the car involved in the accident,” he added.

However, police sources said that the Liana driver claimed that the victims were knocked down by a hit-and-run vehicle.

It may be mentioned here that Dr Ibrahim Soorma was the first to attend to the fatally wounded Mir Murtaza Bhutto, the son of late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, at the Mideast Hospital at Clifton in 1996.

Bullet-riddled body

The bullet-riddled body of a 38-year-old man was found in Block G of North Nazimabad.

The Shahrah-i-Noorjahan police said that the victim, Mairaj Uddin, son of Inayat, was a tailor by profession and had his outlet at Hyderi Market. He was a resident of Khandoo Goth in the limits of Liaquatabad police.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post mortem examination by a Chippa ambulance.

Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim, who hailed from Pakpattan, had received multiple bullets from a very close range as the bullets had went through his body.

The police said the incident seemed to be motivated by a personal enmity.

A case was registered against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s brother, Mohammed Riyaz.

Drowned

The body of a 60-year-old man was recovered from a drain near Zeenatul Islam Masjid in Garden.

The Nabi Bux police said that the man, identified as Noor Mohammed, son of Imam Bux, had drowned in the drain. They said the victim was mentally unstable and was missing for the past three days.

The elderly man, father of seven sons, was a resident of Laasi Compound.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for a post mortem examination. Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the man died due to drowning.

The police said that the body was later handed over to the family after medico-legal formalities.

They said that no case was registered as it was an accidental death.

Meanwhile, another body of a drowned man was fished out from the Lyari River near Old Golimar in the limits of Pak Colony police.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital where sources said that the victim had died due to drowning.

They said the unidentified victim, who appeared to be in his early 30s, was a non-Muslim as he was not circumcised. The victim remained unidentified and his body was later kept at Edhi Morgue for want of identification.