KARACHI, Oct 9: Four people, including a transporter, were shot dead in different city areas on Sunday, police said.

The Jamshed Quarters police said that two cousins shot dead each other apparently over a petty issue.

They said 26-year-old Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and 27-year-old Abdul Ghaffar fired at each other with their pistols in Baloch Para at Jehangir Road No 1.

“The two had had a quarrel at the wedding of their Wadaira’s son in Liaquatabad but they were pacified by other guests,” said a duty officer at the Jamshed Quarters police station. “However, they had an altercation again in Baloch Para, where they lived, and the two fired at each other.”

Both men sustained bullet wounds and were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi, where they died.

The police said that both of them had a clash of interest over some drug peddling business.

Till late in the night, FIRs about the killings were not lodged.

In another incident, unknown assailants gunned down a transporter in the SITE area on Sunday.

Police said 45-year-old Chaudhry Ghulam Ali, accompanied by his friend Liaquat Ali, was driving somewhere when two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on him.

The incident occurred within the remit of the SITE-B police station.

Area SP Shahjehan Khan described the incident as an attempt of carjacking, and said that the armed men intercepted the victim’s car near Gulbai and demanded valuables. “Apparently the transporter tried to resist upon which the armed men shot him and fled.”

However, the victim’s friend remained unhurt, he said, adding that the armed men fired a single bullet which proved fatal.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for a post-mortem examination.

Meanwhile, a rickshaw driver was shot dead by his passengers within the remit of the Sukkan police station.

Police said the 35-year-old rickshaw driver, Mohammad Aftab, was shot in the head near Doballa Para by those who had hired the rickshaw.

The victim was a resident of Sherpao Colony and the police suspected that the killing might have been motivated by some personal feud.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.

Many held in ‘targeted’ actions

A number of suspects were rounded up in separate search operations in different parts of the city in the small hours of Sunday.

In Pak Colony, a contingent of the police and the Frontier Constabulary cordoned off the entry and exit points from the Marble Market and Old Golimar areas and moved from house to house in search of criminals. Some 30 suspects were taken into custody and a few weapons were seized during the operation.

A Rangers’ press release stated that during the last 48 hours the paramilitary troops carried out raids in different parts of the city and rounded up 13 suspects and seized arms and ammunition from them. The targeted operations were conducted in PIB Colony, Baloch Goth, Rabia City, Manghopir, Orangi Town, Singhu Lane and the old truck stand.