KARACHI, June 1: A maidservant shot dead a man who had entered a house in Korangi on Saturday evening.

The woman, identified as Sharifan, told the police that three men came to a house in Darus Salam Society, Korangi. One of them forcibly entered the house and sat in a room. She fetched a sub- machine gun and opened fire, killing him on the spot. She killed the stranger as she suspected he was a robber.

According to the police, Sharifan had asked him to sit in the room where he was sitting. The house owner had hired Sharifan and her husband Qurban to look after the vacant house. There were no household items or valuables in the house. Having killed the man, Sharifan informed her husband who is a gardener. He came to the house, changed his clothes and then went to the police station.

A senior police official said the man killed was later identified as Tahir Iqbal Khuwaja and worked for a security agency as a supervisor. “There appears to be something wrong and it did not happen the way we are being told it happened.”

DROWNED: The body of a four-year-old girl was found in an open manhole in New Karachi.

Police said Arshad reported on Wednesday that his daughter Iqra, 4, had gone missing. On Saturday some children playing near an open manhole noticed a body and informed their elders who contacted the police.

The police pulled the body out of the manhole and called Arshad for identification who identified her as Iqra. He refused to get the autopsy conducted and took away the body for burial, the police added.

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