KARACHI: A woman was killed while trying to stop her son from committing suicide in their house in Marvi Goth off the National Highway on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday, police said.

Shah Latif Town SHO Gul Baig said that initial investigations suggested that Naushad, 24, pulled out his pistol and tried to shoot himself but his mother, Rukhsana Masood, 52, intervened in a bid to prevent him from ending his life.

Apparently, in the struggle between the two, the pistol went off wounding both of them, he said, adding that only one bullet was fired that first hit the man in the chest and then his mother.

They were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors pronounced the woman dead on arrival. Her son was admitted for treatment.

The police seized the weapon and were “investigating the case from different angles”.

Man found murdered

A man was murdered in the Ibrahim Hyderi area on Wednesday, according to police.

They added that Alamgir, 40, was killed with the help of a heavy stone allegedly by Abdullah and Yasin.

The police arrested the suspects and claimed that they were drug addicts. The victim was also an “emotionally disturbed person”, they said.

The body was shifted to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.

Suspect held for kidnapping infant boy

The Pirabad police on Wednesday claimed to have recovered an infant boy and arrested the man who allegedly kidnapped him.

Eight-day-old Huzaifa was kidnapped from Pirabad on July 13. The police, acting on a tip-off, carried out a raid in Keamari and recovered the baby, said SSP Abid Ali Baloch.

Suspect Khalid Khan and his accomplice were also arrested, he added.

Published in Dawn, July 18th, 2019