KARACHI, Nov 3: An activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement was shot dead in New Karachi on Sunday.

Unidentified men opened fire on Zahoor Elahi, aged 25, in sector 5-J of New Karachi and escaped.

Police said that the young man suffered multiple bullet injuries. His friend Mohammed Shahid rushed him to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he died.

The MQM (Haqiqi) activist was a resident of Akbarabad, New Karachi. After the killing tension griped the area.

A security guard shot dead a young man, Khwaja Mohammed Saeed, aged 26, in Tariq Bin Ziyad Colony in Airport police limits.

Saeed, aged 26, had gone to visit his friend’s house in the Colony. As he tried to enter the Colony, which was guarded by private security guards, a security guard, Rajab Ali, opened fire on him, police said.

He was rushed to the JPMC where he died.

Police claimed to have arrested the security guard.

An excise inspector, Saleem Habib, was shot dead in Surjani Town police limits on late Saturday night.

Saleem, aged 45, with his family, had gone to a farmhouse situated off Super Highway on Saturday evening. After midnight Saleem, with his brother-in-law, went out to fetch food in their vehicle (ABH-397). They were intercepted by unidentified men near an eating-house in Gadap police limits who pumped several bullets into Saleem’s body, and abducted Aslam, his brother-in-law.

Saleem lived in Gulshan-i-Iqbal.

FOUND MURDERED: Two unidentified boys, aged 10-11 years, were found murdered in Orangi Extension on Sunday. Their bodies were recovered from a stormwater drain in Benazir Colony, sector 11, near Islam Chowk.