KARACHI, Dec 2: The trussed-up bodies of two young men were found in different areas of the city on Thursday.

A duty officer at the Jackson police station said the body of a young man bearing torture marks and gunshot wounds was found trussed-up and stuffed in a gunny bag on the Jinnah Bridge on Thursday morning.Police said the victim was kidnapped and later killed by unknown persons, who threw the body on the Jinnah Bridge from a moving vehicle.

Police shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Karachi for a postmortem examination.

The victim was later identified at the Edhi morgue as Babar, son of Mir Afzal.

Keamari SP Tariq Mughal said that according to initial reports the victim did not have any political affiliation.

Police registered an FIR (123/2010) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Jackson police station on behalf of the state.

In the other incident, the trussed-up body of a young man was found within the remit of the Pak Colony police station on Thursday.

A duty officer of the Pak Colony police station said the body was found in the back of the Trans-Lyari Park.

The victim was identified as Manzoor Ahmed, son of Mohammad Ayub, a resident of Badal Village in Old Golimar.

Police said the victim was shot twice in the head. They shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Karachi for a postmortem examination.

Police said an FIR of the incident was not registered as the family told police that they would lodge an FIR after the burial of the victim.

Young man killed A young man was killed in Memon Goth, Malir, early on Thursday morning.

Police said the incident occurred in the Harichand Mohallah, where the body of Hanif, son of Hamza, was found with a gunshot wound.

Police shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a postmortem examination.

Later, the victim’s family lodged an FIR (206/2010) under Sections 302 and 34 of the PPC at the Memon Goth police station and nominated Asghar in the incident.

Police said a nephew of Asghar’s was killed in the same area a few months back.

The suspect had a criminal background and was recently released from jail, police added.

Woman killed by ex-husband A woman was killed by her former husband in Orangi Town on Thursday.

Police said Sidra Kiran, 20, was walking through a ground near an Imambargah within the remit of the Pirabad police station when her former husband allegedly shot her. She suffered a single shot in the head and died on way to hospital.

Orangi Town SP Khurram Waris said Ali Hasan was arrested by the police and a 9mm pistol used by him was seized from him.

He said the couple had divorced about five months back. They had a court marriage in Hyderabad and remained married for about one and a half years. The couple has an infant daughter.

After his arrest, the suspect said his former wife had called him there, but her father, Aurangzeb, told the police that a friend of the suspect was also seen near the ground.

Police registered an FIR (782/2010) under Section 302 of the PPC on the complaint of the girl’s father, Aurangzeb, against Ali Hasan at the Pirabad police station.

Man held for child abuse Police arrested on Thursday a man accused of abusing a young girl in Sharafi Goth.

A duty officer of the Sharafi Goth said the man came to the police station and complained that a resident of his neighbourhood had abused his nine-year-old daughter by taking her into his house in Samdani Town, near Pak Tannery in Future Colony, early on Thursday morning.

Following the complaint, the police registered an FIR (377/2010) under Section 376 of the Women Protection Act at the Sharafi Goth police station. Subsequent to the FIR, police arrested the suspect in the area.

The girl was sent for a medical examination to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

The medico-legal officer, after carrying out a medical examination, reserved the report.