KARACHI, March 12: Two women were killed in as many incidents in different parts of Orangi Town within the remit of the Mominabad police station on Monday, police said.

They said that the first incident took place at Bismillah Colony where a woman was found shot dead near Mubarak Mosque.

DSP Tariq Malik said that the victim was identified as Rakhshanda, 36, wife of Aslam Ayub. A cellphone and a TT pistol were found from her possession, he added.

The police said that the woman was twice married and had four children.

The area DSP said that according to the statement of the victim’s husband, she left her home in the early hours of Monday telling him she was going to the Cantt railway station to buy tickets for Punjab and then after a few hours her body was found in Sector 10.

He said that the victim was an employee of a garment factory. The police suspected that the pistol might have planted on her to make her look like a bandit or she could have been killed by someone she knew.

Till late in the night, no case was registered at the Mominabad police station.

In the second incident, Salma wife of Munawwar Khan was found strangled in her Faqeer Colony home within the remit of the Mominabad police station.

Police said that the body was brought to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital by her husband, who claimed that his wife had committed suicide.

However, doctors at the hospital said that the woman had been strangled before being hanged, the police added.

DSP Malik said that a visit to the victim’s house suggested that a struggle had taken place in the kitchen. A wire was also found in the kitchen, which had apparently been used for strangling her, he added.

The police detained the husband for questioning. The victim, a mother of two, originally hailed from Swat.

Rival gangs clash

A gangster was killed and two persons, including a woman, were wounded on Monday when two groups of drug peddlers clashed with each other within the remit of the Pak Colony police station.

However, the fallout of the clash was also felt in the Rizvia and Gulbahar police station areas where the normal routine of life was disturbed due to heavy firing by the rival gangs.

According to police, two criminal groups traded fire apparently over a turf war in the Old Golimar area. In the crossfire a man later identified as Zahid Baloch was killed and two others, Zahir Ahmed and Faiza wife of Adnan, were wounded, police said.

Heavy police reinforcements were sent to the place of the clash. However, police bickered over the jurisdiction. Rizvia SHO Irfan Haider transferred all responsibility to the Pak Colony police, saying that the clash between two criminal groups broke out within their jurisdiction. He did, however, admit that the killing took place within the remit of the Rizvia police station.

The deceased Zahid, according to SHO Haider, belonged to a gang while the wounded persons were passersby. He said heavy contingents of police and rangers were deployed and the situation is now under control.

No case was registered till the filing of this report.