KARACHI, May 10: Two young men who had been missing since Wednesday were found shot dead in a Korangi No 6 area within the remit of the Awami Colony police station early on Thursday, police said.

They said some unidentified men brought 24-year-old Samiullah and 26-year-old Mohabat Khan to the Korangi No 6 area near the petrol pump street on three motorcycles.

They pushed them over the road and opened fire on them and fled, the police said quoting some area residents as saying.

The police said Mohabat got two bullets to the head and Samiullah three bullets to the head and the neck.

The police took the bodies to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

They said that identification of the two victims became possible through a phone number slip which was found with the victim.

When the police called on the number, it turned out to be one of the victims’ family’s, who were informed about the incident, the police said.

The family rushed to the JPMC, where the victims were identified as Samiullah and Mohabat Khan.

Awami Colony police station SHO Javed Brohi said that Mohabat was a resident of Manghopir area where he worked in a marble factory on the main Manghopir Road while Samiullah was a resident of Qasba Colony and worked at a towel factory in Korangi.

Both victims were unmarried and hailed from Peshawar.

The exact motive for the double murder remained unclear. The police, however, suspected that it could be part of ethnic violence in the city.

An FIR (156/2012) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code was registered against unidentified men on a complaint of one of the victims’ cousin, Sarwar Khan, at the Awami Colony police station.