KARACHI, April 23: Four persons, including a young man and woman, were shot dead in different city areas on Monday, police said.

They said that the man and woman were shot dead in Shah Haroon Society, Ayub Goth, within the remit of the Sohrab Goth police station.

Area DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said that a man barged into the home of Saad Badshah, 36, where he lived with 24-year-old Lal Jehan, and opened fire on them. Both the man and woman sustained multiple bullet wounds and died on the spot, he added.

Quoting the statement of a relative of the victims who lived nearby, the DSP said that Lal Jehan was the wife of Mumtaz Khan and she had allegedly fled with Saad Badshah from her native town of Kohat to Karachi.

He said the pair settled in the Sohrab Goth area. The woman’s husband, Mumtaz Khan, got information about their residence and the police believed that he killed the two. The suspect fled the scene following the incident, the police said.

The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Till late in the night, no FIR regarding the double murder was registered at the Sohrab Goth police station.

Man kills mother-in-law

A man killed his mother-in-law and wounded his wife and brother-in-law in the Quaidabad area on Monday, police said.

They said the incident took place in Gulshan-i-Buner, where suspect Muhammad Jamshed had gone to the house of his in-laws to bring back his estranged wife. However, following an altercation with his in-laws, he lost temper and opened fire.

As a result of firing, his mother-in-law Noor Begum sustained bullet wounds and died before she could be shifted to the hospital. Jamshed’s wife Afsana, 21, and brother-in-law Hafiz Muhammad also sustained bullet wounds. The dead and wounded were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities and medical treatment.

The police said the suspect escaped the crime-scene following the incident.

They said the victim family and the suspect belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Man found shot dead

The bullet-riddled body of a man was found in Orangi Town on Monday morning, police said.

They said the body was found in Orangi Town’s Sector-7 close to a storm drain opposite the Qatar Hospital within the jurisdiction of the Orangi Town police station.

With the help of a computerised national identity card found in the victim’s pocket, he was identified as Naseem Jan, 46, said area DSP Tariq Malik.

The victim had been shot thrice in the head, chest and abdomen, the police said.

The DSP said it appeared that the victim had been shot somewhere else and the body dumped at the scene.

The police shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities. Later, it was moved to the Edhi morgue since the police could not find any relative of the victim.

The victim’s address mentioned in the CNIC was of Orangi Town, but the police did not find his family at the address.

Till late in the night no FIR of the murder was lodged at the Orangi Town police station.