KARACHI: Bandits kill worker

Published May 25, 2007

KARACHI, May 24: A gang of three bandits killed on Thursday a factory worker in Gulberg.

Federal B Area police said Bashir Khan came out of his factory with other workers in the morning when three dacoits held them hostage at gunpoint.

They said the victim struggled with the bandits who opened fire killing him instantly. The victim was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where sources said the man had received a fatal bullet wound in his upper torso.

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