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KARACHI: A man was found murdered in Manghopir on Saturday, police said.
They said that the partially burnt body that bore marks of torture was found in a desolated place near Mehmood Goth in Khairabad. The victim appeared to be in his mid-20s.
The police believed he was killed somewhere else by criminals, who later dumped the body in bushes and set it on fire.
The corpse was shifted to a morgue for identification after completion of medico-legal formalities at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Meanwhile, a stray bullet claimed the life of a minor boy in Korangi on early Saturday morning.
The Korangi Industrial Area police said that six-year-old Abdul Ghani was killed when a bullet hit him in the head near Qayumabad Bridge.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfill medico-legal formalities.
Two men shot by robbers
Two men were shot at and wounded by armed robbers in Manghopir on early Saturday morning.
Police said that Shahnawaz, 25, and Abdul Hakee, 27, were shot when they put up resistance to an armed robbery near Chilghazi Cut on Northern Bypass. The muggers fled from the scene.—Staff Reporter
Published in Dawn, February 12th, 2023
