KARACHI: A young woman was stabbed to death in New Karachi allegedly by her drug addict neighbour, police said.

They said 25-year-old Saba Aslam was attacked outside her home in Sector 5-J of New Karachi near Aqsa Masjid when she came out early in the morning to run an errand.

The area police said suspect Ghazanfar was already waiting for her at the street corner and when she came close, he attacked her with a knife. They said she died on way to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Saba was single and known as socially active in the neighbourhood. The alleged killer managed to escape.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2021

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