KARACHI, Dec 22: A woman and her son were killed by gunmen who had apparently barged into their home in New Karachi on Thursday morning.

Police said the incident took place in Sector 5-E, near Sindhi Hotel, where two suspects entered a house. They shot Ameera Begum, 72, and also fired at Muhammad Javed, 48, who was in another room of the house.

Police said the victims were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where they succumbed to their wounds.

Quoting the neighbours, police said that before the incident they had heard noises coming from the house, followed by two gunshots.

SHO Muhammad Ilyas of the Bilal Colony police station said no valuables were stolen from the house.

The victim, Javed, had a halva-puri shop in the same area and had five children. The eldest son, 17, told the police that they had no enmity with anyone.

However, police suspected some personal enmity as a possible motive for the killings.

Two found shot dead in graveyard

A teenager and a young man were found shot dead near Al-Asif Square on Thursday night, police said.

The officials added that the bodies were found in a graveyard, situated near Indus Plaza, within the remit of the Sohrab Goth police station.

“The victims have been identified as 14-year-old Shamoon and 25-year-old Lal Khan,” said a duty officer at the Sohrab Goth police station.

He said it seemed that both the victims had been gunned down at the graveyard because they were lying in a pool of blood.

However, he added, no spent bullet casing was found there due to darkness.

Soon after the bodies were spotted, dozens of ambulances dashed to the scene, causing panic in the adjoining localities. The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

The official said that the victims used to sell second-hand clothes and lived in a nearby shantytown, Qayumabad. He added that the victims were not associated with any political party.

The police suspected personal enmity or a business dispute as a possible motive behind the killings.

Shop employee

An employee of a shop was killed within the remit of the Kharadar police station on Thursday morning.

A duty officer in the police station said the trussed up body of Muhammad Rafiq, 50, was found in the lace shop in the Latif Cloth Market behind Memon Masjid, when the owner of the shop opened it.

Police said the victim’s throat was slit, causing his death.

Quoting the shop owner, Abdul Shakoor, police said Rafiq lived close to the market and came early in the morning to clean the shop.

The strongbox in the shop had been broken into and emptied of around Rs40,000, police added.

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

Police registered an FIR (435/2011) under Sections 352 (punishment for assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation), 302 (premeditated murder) with 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified persons on the complaint of the shop owner at the Kharadar police station, the duty officer said.

Rickshaw driver

A rickshaw driver was killed in ‘accidental firing’ in his home in Keamari on Thursday.

Police said the incident took place within the remit of the Jackson police station, where Faqeer Shah, 35, was servicing the pistol of his late father when it accidentally went off, killing him on the spot.

Police said it was a licensed pistol. No case of the incident was registered till late in the evening.

Victim identified

The man who succumbed to his wounds at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center following a Shah Faisal Colony clash between two groups on Wednesday was later identified as Ahmed Qamar, son of Qamaruddin Baloch, a central vice president of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam.

His body was sent to his hometown, Khuzdar, for burial, police said.

An FIR of the incident was yet to be registered as the victim’s family had gone to Balochistan for burial, the area SHO said.