KARACHI, Nov 12: An under trial prisoner died at the Karachi Central Jail on Sunday.

A duty officer of the New Town police station said that according to the available information they had about the incident suggests that Shakil, 23, was facing trial in a robbery case.

According to the jail authorities he suffered some chest pain on early Sunday morning and was taken to the Civil Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

However, his postmortem examination report was awaited till filing of this report.

THREATS: A medico-legal officer posted in the Jinnah Hospital has been receiving death threats by unknown callers and was also fired at near the Civil Hospital on late Saturday night.

Dr Shakoor Bhatti told Dawn that three gunshots were fired at his car on late Saturday night at the doctors’ mess in the Civil Hospital.

“I left my car (AGW-159) with its engine running and went into the mess to fetch my cellphones when three shots were fired at my car,” Dr Bhatti said.

He said he had submitted two applications at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police station about the death threats he had been receiving.

Referring to the latest incident, Dr Bhatti said that the caller told him that they knew that my wife was a doctor and in which school my two daughters were enrolled.

He was critical of the police attitude, saying that they were taking these threats very lightly. He said he had no idea who was behind these threats.