KARACHI, Nov 8: A newly-wed couple was shot dead in Bin Qasim Town on Thursday evening.

Police said that Irshad, 24, and his wife Nusrat, 23, were found lying in a pool of blood in their rented house in Gulistan Colony in Shah Latif area.

Quoting area people, the police said that the couple had a court marriage about two months back. Since then they had been living in the rented house in Gulistan Colony falling in the jurisdiction of Khuldabad police post, it was added.

According to area people, they heard several gunshots and felt as if some people were running away. Police said that the couple suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

The couple hailed from Larkana and had apparently left their homes to get married.

Rs2.2m bank robbery

Bandits struck inside the City District Government offices on Thursday, taking away Rs2.2 million from a bank branch situated on the Civic Centre premises and killing a security guard who tried to put up resistance.

However, a senior police official of the Gulshan police station expressed his astonishment over the holdup inside the Civic Centre citing the extent of vigilance inside the CDGK offices.

He said that at around 7.15pm an excise official rang up to tell him about the robbery.

Police said that according to the information provided by excise staff, Ali Mohammad Bogio, a cashier in the Excise and Taxation office, came down to the National Bank branch to deposit the day’s cash. At the same time some suspects, who had concealed weapons in their clothes, entered the bank and held the occupants at gunpoint.

As the security guard, Saud Khan, tried to resist them, the bandits shot him dead and fled with the cash.

The bandits also took away pay orders worth Rs4.1 million, police quoting Excise officials said. A large amount of revenue under the head of different taxes is deposited in the bank braches located on the Civic Centre premise every day.

Murder

The body of a youth was dropped in the Gurumandir area by his suspected killers on Thursday night.

A medico-legal officer of the Civil Hospital said that an Edhi ambulance driver brought a body of an unidentified young man to hospital. He told doctors that some unknown men had dropped the body at Edhi’s Gurumandir Centre. Subsequently, the body was shifted to hospital.

Hospital sources said that victim was in his mid 30s and had suffered a gunshot in the head.

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