KARACHI, Aug 25: A young man died and two of his friends got injured following an altercation with the employees and owner of a food outlet in Site area late Thursday night.

Police said that Ali Asghar, and his two friends Mohammad Yousaf and Fazal were having dinner at a hotel in Mianwali Colony in the limits of Pirabad police station. During the course of their dinner they had an altercation with an employee of the hotel. Following exchange of abuses, the hotel owner jumped into dispute and ended up using his firearm at his customer.

Subsequently, Ali Asghar died and Yousaf and Fazal suffered bullet wounds. The owner identified as Sherzada fled from the spot following the incident. Police lodged an FIR of the incident.

ARRESTED: The CID police on Friday claimed arrests of two suspects who had fled from the police custody in Kashmor two months back.

Police said that the accused, wanted in over 10 murder cases, were nabbed near Kamran Chowrangi, Gulistan-i-Jauhar. They were identified as Hazro and Hashim.

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