KARACHI, June 8: A man said to be a member of the Kuchhi Rabita Committee (KRC) was shot dead in a Lyari locality on Friday evening, police said.

They said that the killing occurred in Moosa Lane where Irfan Soomro, 37, who was sitting outside his residence, was targeted by three men who reportedly came there on foot.

Baghdadi SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said: “They [assailants] might have used a motorcycle to escape from the scene, but initial reports suggest that they were on foot when they carried out the killing”.

The victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, the police said.

He suffered bullet wounds in the head and chest.

The area SHO said that the victim was said to be a member of the KRC.

Karim Kuchhi, a KRC spokesman, told Dawn that the victim was not only a member of the KRC but also an office-bearer of the Pakistan People’s Party (city area).

He said that on Friday morning the PPP took out a small rally in support of setting up of reverse osmosis (RO) plants in Lyari and the victim was present in the programme.

Man found shot dead in Korangi

The body of a man, stuffed in a gunny bag, was found in Korangi early on Friday morning, police said. They said the victim had been shot in the head.

The body was found in Mehran Town, they added.

The victim was identified as Noor Rehman, 30, at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre with the help of some documents found on him.

A duty officer at the Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) police station said that the victim was a resident of Kunwari Colony, Manghopir and originally hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

It appeared that the victim had been kidnapped and shot dead somewhere else and the body was thrown at the scene, the police said.

Police were immediately not sure about the motive of the murder. Till late in the night, no case pertaining to the killing was registered at the KIA police station.

The victim was a nephew of a local leader of the Awami National Party, Anwerzeb Musakhel, according to a party press release.

The funeral prayer was held in Kunwari Colony and he was buried in the Manghopir graveyard.