KARACHI, Aug 2: Two young friends were shot dead late Wednesday night within the remit of the Site-B police station in Metroville No 2, said police.

The police quoted the victims’ families as saying that Rasheed Akbar, 22, and Shahnawaz Baloch, 23, were returning home after shopping when they were sprayed with bullets.

Both the men sustained multiple gunshot wounds and died before they could be taken to a health facility, the officials said.

The police said that Rasheed was a garment factory worker and Shahnawaz used to work at a fishing boat. They were not associated with any religious or political group.

Later, a brother of one of the victims, Saleem, lodged an FIR (222/2012) against unidentified persons at the Site-B police station.

The police said they were not clear about the motive for the murders.

Eunuch killed

The body of an unidentified eunuch was found in New Karachi on Thursday, said police.

They added that the body was spotted in a storm drain in Sector 6-B near Saba Cinema within the remit of the New Karachi Industrial Area police station.

The victim, in the mid-30s, was killed at least three to four days ago, the police said.

They shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities following which it was shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification.

MNA’s escort

An inspector of the motorway police on Thursday filed a complaint at the Pak Colony police station against the alleged misbehaviour of the police escort of an MNA on Lyari Expressway.

In the complaint, Inspector Waqar Ahmed Jumani stated that the Motorway police stopped the vehicle of MNA Haider Abbas Rizvi along with his escort on the Lyari Expressway for violating speed limit, said Pak Colony SHO Shakil Sharwani.

The complaint, the SHO added, also mentioned the MNA vehicle was moving at a speed of 93 kilometres per hour whereas speed limit on the expressway was 80 km an hour.

“After stopping, the police guards of the MNA misbehaved with the Motorway police and drove away,” the inspector stated in his application.

The inspector sought legal action against the lawmaker and his guards, said the SHO Pak Colony.

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