KARACHI, May 27: Three people, including a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, who had gone missing over a couple of days back, were found shot dead in Lyari and its neighbouring areas on Sunday, police said.

A young resident of the Napier Road area kidnapped on his way to a friend’s home was found shot dead in Memon Society early Sunday morning, said the police.

The Kalri SHO said Shahid, 28, son of Zakariya, was kidnapped somewhere between Lea Market and Kharadar on Saturday.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), where the victim was identified.

The police quoted hospital sources as saying that the body bore torture marks and a gunshot wound.

The victim was an active worker of MQM Lyari sector’s unit 29, said Mithadar SDPO Zafar Ali Shah.

He added the victim had a decoration shop in the Napier Road area.

The Kharadar police later registered an FIR (183/2012) against unidentified suspects on a complaint of the victim’s father.

The police described the murder as a targeted killing.

Following the killing, tension spread in the areas of Napier Road and Kharadar amid suspension of commercial activities.

Man found shot dead

The partially decomposed body of a young man believed to have been killed two days back was found in the Lyari river near the Love Lane Bridge within the remit of the Pak Colony police station, police said.

They added that 30-year-old Mohammad Bilal Mengal, son of Mohammad Khan Mengal, had gone missing two days back.

A resident of Al Fareed street, Garden West, Bilal was not associated with any political party, said the police quoting the victim’s family as saying.

Pak Colony SHO Abdul Moid said the victim had sustained a gunshot wound to his head. The body was shifted to the CHK for medico-legal formalities and later handed over to his family.

The police suspected that gangsters in Lyari might have killed the victim.

However, a case had not been lodged at the police station till late in the evening.

Body found

Another young man was shot dead within the remit of the Pak Colony police station, police said.

Twenty-five-year-old Nasir, son of Hayat, was kidnapped close to his residence in Nishtar Basti, old Sabzi Mandi, the police said.

They added that the victim, an MSc student, was shot dead before his body was dumped in Jahanabad, old Golimar.

The police said Nasir was not associated with any political party. They described personal enmity as a possible motive for the killing.

The victim hailed from Kalat, Balochistan, they added.

The body was shifted to the Edhi morgue after medico-legal formalities.

No case had been registered till late Sunday evening.