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KARACHI, March 19: A couple was found murdered in a house near KTC Ground in Jacob Lines on Wednesday. Their eight-month-old baby was, however, found alive lying besides mother’s body.
Police said the baby girl survived two days without food and water. Bodies of her parents, Shabbir Hussain, aged 35, and Nazia, aged 30, were found in separate rooms.
The two-day old bodies had started decomposing, the police added.
Unknown assailants had slit throats of the victims leaving them in a pool of blood which also sprayed over the infant, according to the police. The baby was rushed to the JPMC and admitted for treatment.
Initial investigation reveals that Shabbir Hussain, a technician at a private TV channel, had returned from Dubai two months ago. The couple had got married about four years back, police said.
Shabbir’s father, Fateh Shar, had meet him last Sunday and tried to visit the couple over the last days but found the house locked. Puzzled over their disappearance, Mr Fateh sent his other son, Shahzad, to the house. Shahzad jumped into the house by scaling the outer wall on Wednesday and discovered that his brother and sister-in-law were murdered.
The bodies were shifted to the JPMC for postmortem examination, police said.
ACCIDENTS: Four persons died in separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday.
Police said that two minibuses, JE-5775 and JE-2557, collided head-on at KDA Chowrangi in Surjani Town leaving one of their drivers, Aslam, aged 24, and a pedestrian, Muzaffar Gul, aged 26, dead. One of the passengers was injured in the collision. The bodies and the injured passenger were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
In another accident, an unknown vehicle knocked down a young man in Garden area. Police said that Azmatullah, aged 21, was knocked down by a hit-and-run vehicle and taken to the Civil Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
In a similar accident, a 23-year-old man, Saleem Khan, was hit by an unknown speeding vehicle in Shah Latif area of Malir. He was rushed to the JPMC where was pronounced dead.
SHOT DEAD: An alleged bandit was killed while trying to escape in the jurisdiction of Tipu Sultan police station Wednesday morning.
According to police, the bandit broke into a barber shop ‘Saloon for Men’ in Shabbirabad and after collecting a TV set and some cash, he tried to escape in a car (No. G-5938). A mobile van belonging to a private security agency chased the car and fired shots to stop him. During the pursuit, the car rammed into an electric pole.
The injured bandit, later identified by police as Khadim, was shifted to the JPMC where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police revealed that he possessed no weapon.
Meanwhile, unidentified assailants shot dead a 23- year-old man, Faisal, in Buffer Zone Wednesday night.
Police said that he was killed in sector 11-E of Fatima Colony, New Karachi. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
SUICIDE: A 22-year-old girl, Saima, committed suicide apparently after being scolded by her mother.
Police said that Saima killed herself by sprinkling kerosene oil on her body at her home in sector 5-E of New Karachi.
KILLED: Body of a young cook, Hazrat Gul, was recovered from the rooftop of the hotel he worked in.
Police said that the victim used to sleep on the rooftop of the hotel in Saddar, in the limits of Artillery Maidan police station.
Abduction BID: A young man who was abducted by four men in the Site area secured his release by jumping out of a moving vehicle at Quaidabad on Wednesday.
Police said that according to Junaid Ali, 24, four men at a short distance from his factory in the Site area intercepted his car (W-7086) and kidnapped him.
In the meantime Junaid’s father, Yousaf Hamdani, received a call about the incident.
Narrating his ordeal Mr Ali told Dawn that after kidnapping the abductors kept the car moving. At a bus stop three kidnappers came out of the car and boarded a public transport vehicle along with him, whereas the fourth kidnapper took his car away, he added.
He said that they blind folded him, and at one point when he heard transport conductors calling Quaidabad he somehow managed to jump out from the moving car and ran into a market, from where he reached the police station and reported the matter.
Police said that Mr Ali’s abandoned car was found parked at Binnori Road.
