Two killed in city

Published December 20, 2001

KARACHI, Dec 19: Two young men were killed in the city in the past three days.

A young man was found murdered in an empty plot in Orangi Extension on Monday. Police said Arshad Khan, aged 30, was found dead in a vacant plot in Sector 11, Shamsi Colony, near Jamia Farooqi in Orangi Extension.

He was hit with a blunt object on the head, police said. The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem. Khan was a minibus driver, police said.

Another young man was found murdered in Kharadar on Tuesday.

Police said that the victim’s hands and legs were tied, and he was slaughtered and stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen.

The body was found wrapped in a blanket in a narrow street behind Allahrakha Park in Kharadar. The victim might have been killed somewhere else and his body was dumped in Kharadar.

The body was sent to Civil Hospital for post-mortem, police said.

HEROIN RECOVERED: Police arrested a man following the recovery of one kg fine quality heroin powder from him in Risala police limits.

The Risala police said Jan Sher was frisked on suspicion near Kalbonga bus stop near Civil Hospital, which led to the recovery of fine quality heroin. The suspect told police that he received Rs8,000 for delivering the contraband drug from Chaghai, Balochistan, at Karachi.

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