KARACHI: A young factory worker was shot dead in Sohrab Goth late on Wednesday night, said police.

They added that Fayaz Sadaruddin, 28, was shot and killed in Lasi Goth.

Area SHO Syed Wilayat Shah said that the victim was standing outside his home when armed pillion riders opened fire on him and fled. He suffered critical bullet injuries and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

The victim, a factory worker originally hailed from Khairpur.

He said the relatives told the police that they would get an FIR registered after his burial at native town. The officer ruled out possibility of any robbery bid behind the murder.

Woman wounded ‘by friend’

Police said on Thursday that a young girl was shot at and wounded allegedly by her friend in DHA. South-SSP Syed Asad Raza said that initially the girl had claimed that she had been shot by a robber when she had put up resistance to a cell phone snatching bid in the DHA.

As per statement of Manisha, aged 29, she stood alongside an under-construction building on 11 Commercial Street opposite a superstore when a lone motorcyclist came to her and asked to give him her phone. She denied and put her phone in her hand bag. The suspect fired upon her and fled. She suffered a bullet wound on her leg.

The woman cried and screamed for help and sit there and called her boss Joseph who came for help from his office situated at 46-C, 11 Commercial Street almost 500/600 meters away from the place of the incident. During this nobody came for her help.

At the superstore, no one confirmed the incident, said the senior officer.

The South-SSP said that on Thursday it transpired that the girl did not attend the office in DHA on Wednesday and she was shot at and hurt by her friend over some issue at Akhar Colony.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2022