KARACHI: 12 cars, 11 bikes hijacked

Published February 13, 2002

KARACHI, Feb 12: Twenty-three vehicles — 12 cars 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.

Four cars were hijacked. Eight others were stolen.

Six motorcycles were hijacked. Five others were stolen.

Police also claimed on Tuesday to have recovered seven vehicles in the city.

KILLED: Two men were shot dead in the city.

An unidentified man was found murdered in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. Police said the body was several days old. It was stuffed into a gunny bag and carried torture marks.

The body had been found at a garbage dump near the main bridge in Gulistan- i-Jauhar between blocks 19 and 16, police added. It was sent to JPMC for post-mortem. Later, it was shifted to the Edhi morgue’s where it had been kept for identification.

On Monday, a security guard of the Pakistan Steel, Syed Adil Husain, was found murdered in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. Unknown assailants had stabbed him to death, police said.

A man was shot dead in Pathan Colony on early Tuesday morning.

Police said Ali Mohammed, aged 35, was shot at close range. The dead man’s father lodged an FIR at the area police station in which he named two men, Sulaiman and Faramosh, as the killers.

The dead man was a taxi driver and he lived near an eating-house in the area. Police said a weapon and some bullets were also found near the body, to make the killing look like suicide.

The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for autopsy.

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