KARACHI: Shopkeeper shot dead

Published April 21, 2004

KARACHI, April 20: A young shopkeeper was shot dead by bandits in Buffer Zone on Tuesday night. Police said that Irshadullah Siddiqui, 28, was sitting at his flour shop in 15-A2 sector of North Karachi when two armed men on a motorcycle came and demanded cash from him.

On his resistance, they shot at him and fled. The wounded shopkeeper was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

ROBBERIES: A prominent social worker and nephew of Abdul Sattar Edhi, Rizwan Edhi, was deprived of cash and cellular phone at gunpoint in Kharadar late Monday night.

The victim told Dawn that someone knocked at his door of the house late Monday night. As Rizwan Edhi opened the door, a young man at gunpoint demanded cash and other valuables. He took away a cellular phone and cash, Rizwan added.

In Block-20 of F.B. Area, Mr Naqvi was deprived of Rs2.5 million by three armed men. Police said that he had withdrawn the amount from a bank.

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