KARACHI: A teenage boy was shot dead by armed robbers in Orangi Town within the remit of the Pirabad police station, police said on Sunday.

The police said that Ibrahim Kerry, 18, left his home in New Mianwali Colony late on Saturday night and heading somewhere on his motorcycle when two armed men intercepted him and demanded his bike at gunpoint.

They said that the victim put up resistance and one of the criminals fired at him and rode away with the snatched two-wheeler.

He sustained critical bullet wound in the chest and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

On Sunday evening, family and relatives of the deceased staged a sit-in and blocked the road for vehicular traffic. Carrying his coffin, they refused to bury the victim until the arrest of the killers.

West SSP Tariq Ilahi Mastoi said that the police reached the scene persuaded the protesters to end their sit-in. Later, they ended the protest and took the body to a church for funeral.

The SSP also suspended the area SHO and directed the investigators to collect evidence and CCTV footage from surrounding areas to identify the killers.

Factory worker stabbed to death in SITE

A factory worker was stabbed to death in the SITE area on Sunday, police said.

SITE-A SHO Mir Mohammed Lashari said that Hanif Mohammed, 40, was attacked and killed by two men as soon as he came out of his workplace near Nauras Chowrangi.

He said the victim originally hailed from Sakrand and came to Karachi around one month ago.

He said the killers were his relatives and it appeared that they murdered him over a matrimonial dispute.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2026