Elderly couple found murdered in North Karachi

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KARACHI: An elderly man and his wife were found murdered in North Karachi on Wednesday.

The Sir Syed police said that the bodies of Mohammed Yameen and his wife Nafees Akhter, aged between 65 and 70, were found from a house near Amma Park in Sector-11-C. They appeared to have been killed with hard and blunt instruments.

The police said the couple had recently come back from Canada and started living in the house.

After receiving information about the incident, the police rushed to the spot while Crime Scene Unit was called to collect evidence.

The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities while the police are investigating the case.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2026

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