KARACHI, July 12: A 48-year-old man hammered his wife to death on Saturday in their house in Korangi, police and hospital sources said.

Police arrested the suspect, Yaqoob Masih, and seized from him the hammer and the knife he had used in the offence.

The body of Nasreen Masih was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where sources said the 42-year-old victim received multiple wounds to her head with a heavy object. They said the woman was also stabbed in the abdomen.

The police said the suspect killed his wife – a mother of eight – as he suspected her character.

Meanwhile, eight persons were hurt, four of them in traffic-related accidents, in the city on Saturday, adds PPI.

A speeding coach hit and injured a 35-year-old unidentified motorcyclist on the Mauripur Road. He sustained serious injuries and was rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi.

Two motorcyclists were injured after a truck hit them on the M.T. Khan Road. The victims were rushed to the JPMC.

In the third accident, a 25-year-old man sustained serious injuries as he fell from a moving bus at the Natives Jetty Bridge.