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KARACHI, March 29: Twenty-one vehicles — 10 cars and 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Friday, the police said.
Five cars were hijacked. Five others were stolen.
Four motorcycles were hijacked. Seven others were stolen.
RAPE: A minor girl was raped by a security guard in her home in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Friday.
The police said that the 10-year-old girl was alone in her home in Jumma Goth, Block-11, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, when a neighbour, Niaz Ahmed, aged 30, entered the house and raped the girl.
When neighbours heard the cries of the girl, they broke open the door of the house, caught the suspect and handed him over to the police.
Later, the victim girl and the suspect were taken for medical examination to the JPMC, the police said. The suspect, Niaz Ahmed, was an employee of a private security agency.
The victim girl’s mother, who worked as domestic servant, had taken her infant daughter with her to work. The girl’s father, a labourer, was also away to work, the police said.
The SHO Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station said that the suspect, who had been booked under the Hudood Ordinance, would be produced in an anti-terrorism court on Saturday morning.
ROBBERIES: Pervaiz lodged an FIR at Napier police station that unidentified men barged into his home, held the occupants as hostage at gunpoint and escaped with cash.
Mohammed Ismail lodged an FIR at Sharafi goth police station that unidentified men got away with a computer from his shop.
Akhlaq Ahmed lodged a complaint at Aziz Bhatti police station that two unidentified men barged into his home, held the family as hostage at gunpoint and looted cash and valuables.
ACCIDENT: A teenage boy was crushed to death beneath the wheels of a train near Chanesar Halt on Friday.
The police said that the unidentified boy, who was in his early teens, was run over by Mehran Express while walking across the railway tracks. The train was coming from Mirpur Khas.
The body was sent to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre for post-mortem.
