KARACHI: A young couple and their infant son died when a piece of plaster of the roof of a flat fell on them in Gulistan-i-Jauhar late on Tuesday night, police and rescue officials said.

Area SHO Saleemullah Marwat said they were asleep in a room of the flat located on the fourth and last floor of a building in Block-7 when the plaster fell on them.

Area people and rescue services removed the debris and shifted the victims to a nearby hospital, where they were pronounced as dead on arrival. They were identified as Alamgir Shaikh, 32, his wife Sheeza, 26, and their one-year-old son, Abdul Hadi. The deceased man was an engineer working at a private firm.

The officer said the victims’ relatives told the police that they did not want any legal proceedings. Their bodies were taken in ambulances to their native place in Nawabshah for burial, said an Edhi spokesman.

Man found murdered

A 30-year-old man was found murdered in Malir City on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said.

They added that the body of the man identified as Asif Ali was discovered in a closed government girls high school in the Gharibabad area of Malir. His throat was slit with a knife, said Malir SP Tahir Noorani. He added that the victim was a drug addict who might have been killed by his associates over some issue. However, the police were investigating the incident.

The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfil legal formalities.

Fisherman’s body found at Seaview

The body of a drowned fisherman was found at the Seaview beach on Wednesday.

Six fishermen had drowned at around 8am on Tuesday when their boat capsized due to high tide near Seaview. Four fishermen were rescued the same day, but two went missing. One of them identified as Ilyas, 22, was found floating near the beach, said Edhi Foundation spokesperson. The corpse was retrieved and handed over to his relatives. Edhi divers continued their efforts to trace the body of another youth, Azeem Rasheed, 20.

Published in Dawn, May 7th, 2020