KARACHI: Bandits shoot man to death

Published November 5, 2001

KARACHI, Nov 4: Bandits shot a shopkeeper to death in his shop in Korangi on late Saturday night.

The police said that the shopkeeper, Mohammed Mushtaq, aged 40, was about to close his general store in Korangi No 3 when two armed men appeared there and demanded cash from him. Mushtaq put up resistance to the bandits. He grabbed one of the bandits, but the other bandit opened fire on him.

As the bandits were fleeing a police party reached there and arrested the two bandits who were later identified as Mohammed Yaqoob and Mohammed Akram.

Mushtaq was rushed to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

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