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KARACHI, Nov 11: As many as 66 people were deprived of their cars, motorbikes or cellphones in various localities here on Saturday.
Police sources said that 21 vehicles — 16 cars and five motorbikes — were either snatched at gunpoint or stolen. One car was hijacked and 15 others stolen while two motorcycles were snatched at gunpoint and three others stolen.
They said that 45 cellular phones were taken away by bandits.
Nineteen people complained that they were intercepted by bandits at gunpoint and deprived of their cellphones, cash and belongings.
Twenty-six people complained that their cellphones were stolen.
KILLED: A man and a woman were killed in various localities here on Saturday in separate incidents.
The body of a man, in his mid-thirties, was found near a residential complex — Rabia City — in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, in the Sharea Faisal police limits. The man was later identified as Sakhawat Ali.
The victim had left home in his truck on Friday evening and did not return. His truck is still missing.
Police said that the victim’s post-mortem examination report showed that the man was subjected to torture before he was shot to the head.
In another incident, the body of a girl was brought to the Civil Hospital by his relatives from Massan Road in Keamari. The autopsy showed the girl was strangulated.
Police registered a case but no arrest has so far been made. The motive for the murder was also not clear.
