KARACHI: Woman killed

Published June 11, 2008

KARACHI, June 10: A woman was killed by unidentified persons in her Gulistan-i-Jauhar apartment late on Monday night.

Rehana Begum, 38, used to run a marriage bureau at her flat in Noman Grand City. Police said as they received the information about the murder they rushed to the spot and found the woman’s throat slit. They shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy. Following the post-mortem examination, police handed over the body to a relative as her husband, Nusratulllah, lived in Lahore.

Police suspected personal enmity as a probable motive behind the murder.

Fire destroys shops

A fire on the eighth floor of a business centre in Saddar, Regal Trade Centre, left more than a dozen electronic items shops destroyed on Tuesday.

Officials at the central fire office said more than 30 firefighters took almost 90 minutes to put out the fire. “Six fire tenders and a snorkel was used in the operation,” said an official. “Apparently it seems a short circuit that caused the fire,” he said.

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