KARACHI, June 3: Three bullet-riddled bodies were found in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said.

They said that the bodies of two young men were found in Orangi Town’s Sector 8-L in the early hours of Sunday.

Area people informed the police about the bodies. The police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where the victims were identified as Asad Iqbal, 26, and Zafar Iqbal, 31.

Both men were residents of Orangi Town and had been killed after being kidnapped, the police said, adding that they sustained multiple bullet wounds to their head and chest.

Orangi Town SHO Naeem Ahmed said both victims worked at a printing press. Asad’s father was a wireless operator in the police department, he added.

Police sources said Asad was a police informer and that could have been a reason behind his murder.

A case (FIR 122/2012) was registered on a complaint of Asad’s brother Athar at the Orangi Town police station.

The third body of a young man was found along the Lyari Expressway in Bandhani Colony. Police said it appeared that the victim was kidnapped and then shot once to the head.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Later, it was moved to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

A case (FIR 92/2012) was registered at the Liaquatabad police station on behalf of the state against unknown persons.

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