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KARACHI, March 3: A 51-year-old sales manager of a private concern was found shot dead on Monday in his car at Qazafi Town.
Shah Latif Town police said the victim, a resident of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, was found lying in a pool of blood in his car (APD-662).
The body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where sources said victim Abdul Rasheed Ansari received a bullet in his right shoulder from a very close range as it had pierced the body.
The police believed that the man, married with three daughters, was shot dead in the car.
ASI Mohammed Akbar told Dawn that the police had registered a case against unknown killer or killers on the complaint of the victim’s widow. He said the complainant did not name any suspects.
He said an unknown caller reported about the body on the police emergency 15 telephone number.
Two more bodies fished out
Bodies of two more Sunday picnic victims, a woman and her teenage daughter, were fished out on Monday.
Six members of a family drowned when a boat carrying 26 picnickers and two crew members overturned after it was hit by a huge wave.
The bodies of Salim Khan, 46, his son Aralan, 10, his elder sister-in-law Noorun Nisa and her 12-year-old daughter, Kashf, were taken out on Sunday night, while the bodies of Salim’s wife, Bushra, and their 16-year-old daughter Naima, were recovered from the sea on Monday.
The boat was hired for families of Saleem Khan and Tariq Javed, two businessmen, and Ishrat Hussain, a director of the Port Qasim Authority.Aftab Ahmed, younger brother of victim Bushra and Noorun Nisa, told Dawn that Noorun Nisa was the eldest among the siblings and she had been living with her lone daughter after having estranged relations with her husband.
He said only a 12-year-old daughter of Bushra’s survived in the tragedy.
Aftab said Saleem, his wife and children were buried in Hyderabad as his brother-in-law originally hailed from there.
