KARACHI, Aug 13: Infighting within the Arshad Pappu gang claimed two lives in Pak Colony and Malir areas, officials said on Tuesday.

The police added that Mir Mohammed Baloch, 25, was shot dead in the Malir area and to take revenge, his brother killed a member of the same gang in Jehanabad.

Shah Latif Town SHO Ali Hassan Shaikh said some persons who appeared to be familiar with Mir Mohammed called him for a meeting in Faqir Mohammed Goth late Monday night. The police officer quoted the victim’s wife as saying that the deceased served water to them before they killed him. The SHO said relatives of the deceased were about to bury him when a police party reached there and took the body into their custody for medico-legal formalities.

The SHO said the victim’s wife knew the suspected killers but did not disclose their names to the police.

“Mir Mohammed Baloch, a resident of Jehanabad and member of the Arshad Papu gang, had been hiding in Malir as an absconder for the past three to four months,” the SHO said.

The officer said that the deceased’s two brothers too had fallen victim to the gang warfare.

Following the killing, another member of the gang, Munir Baloch, was gunned down in Jehanabad, police said.

“Munir was shot dead outside his home by a brother of Mir Baloch, Qadeer, for his alleged involvement in the Malir murder,” believed Pak Colony SHO Bilal Raza.

He said that Munir, too, was a gangster and hiding in Malir. He had come to Jehanabad to meet his relatives on Monday night when he was killed.

Man shot dead in Chakiwara A civilian employee of Pakistan Army was shot dead in Chakiwara, police said.

They added that Usman Ali, 30, had left his home on Al-Falah Road in Bihar Colony on Monday evening to meet his sister but could not reach there.

In the early hours of Tuesday, he was found shot dead on A-Road in the same locality.

Chakiwara SHO Naseeruddin Shah said that the victim was working as a clerk in the army and was posted in Abbottabad.

The family told the police that they had no enmity with anyone. “Since the victim was Kutchhi, the murder might be part of ongoing fighting between the Kutchhi Rabita Committee and the banned Peoples Amn Committee,” said the police officer.

Two bodies found The body of a young man was found in the Mewashah graveyard in Pak Colony, police said.

The victim was blindfolded and trussed-up. The body was shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification, the police said.

Another young man was found shot dead in Gulshan-i-Maymar, police said.

They added that the body with three gunshot wounds was spotted at a deserted place in Mullah Esa Goth, off the Superhighway.

The police said circumstances suggested that he had been kidnapped and killed somewhere else before his body was dumped by the roadside.

Boy killed in Kharadar A boy was gunned down in Kharadar late Monday night, police said.

They added that Adnan Hameed, 16, was shot dead near Abal Chowk in Kaghzi Bazaar. He sustained four gunshot wounds.

Kharadar SHO Azam Khan said the victim was son of a junk dealer in the same area.