KARACHI: Celebratory gunfire during a marriage ceremony claimed the life of a young man in PIB Colony, police said on Monday.

They said that some people had resorted to aerial firing during a marriage ceremony when a bullet hit Mustafa Ahmed, 24, who was standing in the balcony of his home in PIB Colony on Dec 12. After receiving a critical bullet wound in his head, he was transported to Liaquat National Hospital where he succumbed to the injury during treatment on Monday.

The police have registered a case and launched an investigation.

Body found

The body of a young man was found floating in a nullah (drain) in Korangi area near Bagh-i-Korangi.

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

Awami Colony SHO Humayun Khan said that apparently, there were no injury marks on his body.

Boy found murdered

A missing boy was found murdered in F.C Area on Monday, according to police.

Sharifabad SHO Kamran Haider said the body of the 10-year old was found from a garbage dump at a private school near Zeenat Square in F.C Area. The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors confirmed that he was strangled to death.

A hospital official said that the victim was identified by his parents with the help of his clothes, but they (hospital staff) also took his DNA samples for proper identification. He said the body was around five days old.

They had taken samples to ascertain as to whether he was subjected to criminal assault before being murdered, he added.

The police officer said they were waiting for doctors’ final report. They said the boy went missing from his home in Moosa Colony on Dec. 9 in the evening when he went outside to play. The family has lodged his kidnapping report at Gulberg police station. The SHO said the family had not received any ransom call, adding that the parents also did not say anything about any personal enmity with anyone.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2020