KARACHI, Dec 22: A teenage boy committed suicide in Mominabad, Orangi Town, late Saturday night.

Police said that Noman, aged 13, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his flat in Bhayani Apartments, Orangi Town. He committed suicide after his father scolded him on some domestic matter.

The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.

After autopsy, the body was handed over to the family.

KILLED: Three men were killed in the city on Sunday.

Decomposed body of a young man was found at Mehmoodabad in the morning. Police said that body of Khurram Shahzad, aged 18, was found in a house at Azam Town, Mehmoodabad.

Quoting family sources, police said that Khurram had been living in a friend’s house for the past few weeks. His decomposed body was discovered when some of his family members went looking for him in his friend’s house at Mehmoodabad.

The body was sent to the JPMC for post- mortem.

Police registered an FIR, in which Iqbal and Shahzad have been named as suspects.

Two men shot dead each other in Eidgah at night.

Police said that two men, identified as Kashif, aged 40, and Khasta Khan, aged 42, opened fire on each other near the Old Haji Camp after an argument over a money matter. They were injured.

They were rushed to Civil Hospital, where doctors pronounced both of them dead on arrival, sources at the hospital said. Both men were traders.

A man was killed by his relations in Quaidabad.

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