KARACHI, Sept 8: A transporter who came to the city from Khuzdar district in Balochistan was shot dead on Saturday morning in Nanakwara area over what police described as personal enmity.

The officials said that Ahmed Jan was busy purchasing breakfast from a roadside shop armed men riding a motorbike targeted him.

“He was hit by three bullets in the chest and died on the spot,” said Risala SHO Inspector Javed Sikandar.

He quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the two attackers were wearing trousers and shirts. The police investigators later found spent bullet casings of 9mm pistol at the crime scene.

The SHO said the body was shifted to the Edhi morgue after medico-legal formalities at the Civil Hospital and later it was driven to Khuzdar by his family for burial.

He said: “The family remained tightlipped when asked if the victim had enmity with any individual or group, but we have reasons to believe that the killing was a result of some personal enmity.

“He was transporter by profession and used to visit Karachi off and on for his business matters,” said the Risala SHO, adding that the family’s response was awaited for FIR registration.

Man killed in North Nazimabad

In North Nazimabad, a 45-years-old man was shot dead shortly after he left home, police said.

The officials said Mohammad Shafi sustained two gunshot wounds of TT pistol each to the head and his right shoulder.

The police could not find any witness to the incident.

“The victim was attacked near KDA Chowrangi while he was riding his motorbike,” said an official at the Hyderi police station.

He quoted residents as saying that they only heard gunshots and later found Shafi lying in a pool of blood on the service lane.

The victim was a resident of North Karachi area, the police said. The deceased’s family did not suspect anyone for the murder.

An FIR (82/2012) was later lodged the Hyderi police station on a complaint of the victim’s younger brother against unidentified suspects under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Body found

The Manghopir police found the body of a young man with multiple torture marks at a deserted place close to Feroze Baba Mazaar.

“The victim, in his early 30s, was wearing shalwar kameez,” said an official at the Manghopir police station.

He added that the body was moved to the Edhi morgue for want of identification after medico-legal formalities at the Abbassi Shaheed Hospital.