KARACHI, Sept 8: A 56-year-old man killed on Saturday his wife in Manzoor Colony and fled, police and witnesses said.

Baloch Colony police said suspect Bashir, hailing from Punjab, slit the throat of Sughra, 46, at around 9:45am when the couple was alone in their rented house. Area people said Sughra, mother of five, was living with her two sons, one of them a barber, while their three daughters were married.

They said Bashir, who had been out of job for the past many years, lived in his village in Hafizabad and he had returned only one and a half months ago. They said the landlord was standing in the street when the suspect fled after changing his blood-soaked clothes, later seized by the police.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy. The medico-legal officer, Dr Nasreen Qamar, told Dawn that the throat of the victim was slit with a sharp-edged weapon. She said the victim also received multiple cuts on her face and neck.

Quoting the victim’s sister’s statement, hospital sources that Sughra had asked her for money on Friday night and she had given her Rs20.

Police suspect that the man killed his wife over some monetary dispute. The victim and her husband were alone in the house as he sent his younger son out of the house after the eldest son had left for his barber shop at around 9:30am, police said.

The police have registered a murder case against the suspect and mounted a search for him.

Young woman dies in bank

A 23-year-old woman was brought dead to the JPMC from a commercial bank on I.I. Chundrigarh Road.

Identified as Shumaila, the victim was an employee of the Askari Commercial Bank and was found dead in the bank’s washroom.

An MLO at the JPMC said the body was taken away by the victim’s family without a post-mortem examination.

The MLO said those who had brought the body to the hospital told the doctors that the woman died when she fell in the washroom.

However, hospital sources said the body, which was very blue, did not bear any mark of injury. They said there were no apparent marks of injury on her head, face or hands.

The sources said the victim’s family, residents of North Nazimabad, refused to allow an autopsy on the body. They said the victim’s mother was wailing and saying that the victim was to be married in the next six months.