KARACHI: A young woman was shot dead in the Shadman Town area near Nagan Chowrangi on early Wednesday morning, police said.

The Taimuria police said that they found the body of unidentified woman, aged between 20 and 25 years, near the PNSC apartments.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed said that she sustained a bullet wound in the abdomen.

Central SSP Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi said a witness informed investigators that someone brought the woman to the spot in a car and when she got off the vehicle he shot her and fled. He said that the woman could not be identified till late in the night.

Suspected robber shot dead in ‘encounter’

A suspected robber was shot dead in an ‘encounter’ in Federal B Area on Wednesday, police said.

They said that two suspects were looting a citizen on the main road at the terminus of D-7 bus when a police party arrived there. An encounter took place between and in an exchange of gunfire, an unidentified suspect was killed while his accomplice managed to escape.

The police said that they had apprehensions that the robbers had also shot a citizen but he had sped away in his car.

Stabbed to death

A 69-year-old man was murdered in Gulshan-i-Hadeed on Wednesday.

The Steel Town police said that Peer Bux Solangi was stabbed to death by unknown persons inside his home in Phase-I.

The police said that the victim was a retired employee of Port Qasim.

His son is a doctor at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

The victim was living on the ground floor while his son lived on the upper portion with his family, the police said, adding that the deceased originally hailed from Dadu.

The police suspected some personal enmity behind the murder.

Man found murdered

A man was found murdered in Surjani Town on Wednesday.

Police said body of an unidentified man with slit throat was recovered from Lyari 36-A, near Siddique Akbar Chowk. It was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, March 14th, 2024

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