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KARACHI, Jan 17: Three people, including a young woman, were shot dead in separate acts of violence in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said on Saturday.
A 34-year-old man was shot dead near his house in Federal B. Area.
The Gulberg police said that Afsar Jamal, son of Abdul Wahid, was a chemist in a lubricant manufacturing unit in Hub and he was targeted and killed near his house (R-258) in Block 17 of Federal B. Area.
The area SHO, Zulqarnain, told Dawn that the victim was walking home from the bus stop at around 3.35pm when he was shot dead. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section said that the victim received a single bullet in the back which stuck in the kidney.
The police registered a case (FIR 30/2009) under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s elder brother. The victim was unmarried and had returned from the United States one and a half years ago.
Woman shot dead
A young woman was shot dead near Shafiq More. The Federal B. Area police said that the burqa-covered woman was wearing jeans and a T-shirt and she was talking on her cellphone when an unknown attacker shot her dead.
The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim received two bullets, one in the chest and the other in the head, from a point-blank range as both the bullets went through the body. They said the victim appeared to be in her late 20s.
The area SHO, Inspector Javed Sikander, told Dawn that the cellular phone the woman was using had earlier been snatched at gunpoint near UP More.
He said that the callers who called on her mobile phone introduced themselves as the victim’s friend. “None of the callers knew the victim’s address,” he added.
The body was later kept at the Edhi morgue for want of identification.
Young man shot dead
A 24-year-old man was shot dead over a personal enmity near his house in Madina Colony, Quaidabad.
Shah Latif police said that Suleman Shah, son of Khan Mohammed, was found shot near Multani hotel at around 1am.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy. Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim was shot twice in the upper torso from a very close range as both the bullets pierced through the body.
The police registered a case (FIR 19/2009) against Jallaad Khan, Khan Bara, Khaku and Unser on the complaint of the victim’s father, a labourer hailing from the NWFP.
They said that the suspects were relatives of the victim and they killed him over a personal enmity.
