KARACHI: A teenager who had recently shifted from Lyari to Saeedabad was shot dead by gunmen on Friday morning, the police said.

The SHO of Saeedabad, Ayazuddin, said that the parents of 17-year-old Mohsin Ali had sent him from Chakiwara to stay in Yusuf Goth for some days owing to the breakdown of law and order in Lyari.

However, unidentified men kidnapped him from a coach when he was on his way to Gwadar in Balochistan and later killed him. The police officer said that the victim had no affiliation with any group. The body was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.

Man killed in barber shop

A young man was shot dead in a barber shop in Sharafi Goth on Friday evening, the police said.

They added that the man in his 30s was having a shave in the shop when two gunmen stormed into the shop and opened fire on him. The wounded man was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. His identity could not be ascertained immediately.

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