KARACHI, Sept 3: An air hostess and her banker husband were gunned down by assailants late on Friday night in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, police said.The killing took place in block 2 near Kamran Chowrangi, where Armaghan Jalil, 40, and his wife Anila, 35, travelling in their small jeep (BD 1358) came under attack.

The couple suffered multiple bullet wounds in the head and chest and died on the spot.

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

A duty officer at the Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station said that two gunmen riding a 125cc motorcycle opened fire on the couple and rode away.

Residents of block 3, the couple were returning home after having a dinner at the woman's parents' home in Lal Flats on Rashid Minhas Road.

Mr Jalil was a banker, and his wife an air hostess, the police said.

The duty officer said that over three months back, Mr Jalil had divorced his first wife and married Ms Anila.

An FIR pertaining to the killings was not registered at the Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station till Saturday evening.

Woman, son found hammered to death

The bodies of a woman and her son were found in F. B Industrial Area on Saturday, police said.

They said the bodies of Sharifa, 40, and her son Arshad, 15, were found on the rooftop of a 'quarter' in the factory situated in the F. B Industrial Area.

The police said that Sharifa was supposed to repay a loan of Rs100,000 to Mohammad Ahsan, an employee of the factory.

They said the woman's both sons, Arshad and Aslam, also worked in the factory.

On Saturday when Aslam came looking for his mother and brother, he found them dead.

Sharifa and her two sons lived in Azeem Goth, a shantytown in Gulshan-i-Iqbal.

Police said both the woman and her son were beaten to death with hard and blunt weapons.

The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination.

They said the suspect, Ahsan, had been missing since the incident.

SP Abdul Salam Shaikh said that both the suspect and the victims came from the interior of Sindh and the killing was the result of a monetary dispute.

Young man shot dead

A young man was killed by gunmen within the remit of the Rizvia police station on Saturday.

A duty officer at the police station said Shahid Mehmood, 27, son of Mehmoodul Hasan, was a resident of North Nazimabad but lived with his grandfather in Usmania Colony.

On Saturday when he stepped out of his home, two suspects on a motorcycle shot him and fled.

The young man was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The victim had suffered a fatal bullet wound in the chest.

Police, quoting the family, said he did not have any political affiliation, nor any dispute with anyone.

An FIR (255/2011) was registered at the Rizvia police station on the complaint of the victim's maternal uncle, Aziz Khan.

Meanwhile, an unidentified young man was killed by in Keamari on Saturday. Police said the victim's body was found near Malik Hotel within the remit of the Docks police station. The victim had been hit in the head and his skull fractured, police said.

Police shifted the body to the Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities. Later the body was taken to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

An FIR (250/2011) was registered at the Docks police station on behalf of the state.