KARACHI, July 31: An 18-year-old man and a young woman were killed in separate acts of violence in the city on Thursday.

The bullet-riddled body of the woman was found at a desolate place near Quershi Co-operative Society in the Sachal police limits.

It was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where sources said the victim woman had received four bullets, one of them to her head that proved fatal.

They said the burqa-clad woman was wearing green printed shalwar-qamees and appeared to be in her late 20s.

They said the woman received a bullet each in her abdomen, right thigh and right hand.

The sources said the chemical examination report would ascertain if the woman was also criminally assaulted.

The police said the victim remained unidentified and her body was kept at Edhi’s Morgue for identification.

A case (FIR 452/08) was registered under Sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code against unknown culprits.

The police said the incident seemed motivated by personal enmity.

An 18-year-old man was found shot dead at Madina Colony in Korangi 3½.

Zaman Town police said the victim, identified as Naseer alias Tony, son of Abdur Rahman, was lying in front of the Askar School.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. The medico-legal officer, who conducted the autopsy, told Dawn that the man was hit by two bullets, one to his head and the other in the jaw, from a point-blank range as both bullets went through his skull.

The police said the victim, resident of house 1290, street 6, Raheemabad, Korangi 3-1/3, had been missing since Wednesday night when he left his home.

The police said the young man was jobless and had estranged relationship with his family.

A case (FIR 279/08) against unknown culprits was registered on the complaint of the victim’s father.

Suicide

A 25-year-old watchman at the bungalow of a doctor in PECHS committed suicide by hanging himself from a pipe connected to the overhead water tank.

The victim, identified as Riaz, son of Zad Mohammed, was shifted to the JPMC.

The police said the man committed suicide due to unknown reasons. They said the family told them that the victim had been mentally unstable for the past few months.

The police said the young man was a watchman at the house (No 43/11-B) of Dr Kamran.

They said the victim came from upcountry and his family took his body to their hometown.

70 cellphones, 38 vehicles taken away

As many as 38 vehicles, including nine automobiles, and over 70 mobile phones were taken away across the city.

According to the figures collated from the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee, bandits made off with 33 cellular phones, nine motorcycles and three cars at gunpoint.

The cars were hijacked in the police limits of Site (AEU 228), New Karachi Industrial Area (ANB 743) and Darakhshan (AGY 918).

Besides, thieves stole away six cars in the police limits of Defence (JTP 775), Boat Basin (TKR 834), Samanabad (APO 427), Aziz Bhatti (APR 509 and KQ 1509) and Sir Syed Town (KP 3474).

The figures showed that nine motorcycles were snatched at gunpoint in the police areas of Azizabad (KDA-3564 and KPT-6990), Rizvia Society (KDO-6538), Taimuria (SKH-3536 and KDP-5900), Risala (KBU-3552) and Preedy (KDL-0727).

Twenty other motorbikes were stolen in the police limits of Preedy, Kharadar, Risala, Taimuria, Sir Syed Town, Chakiwara, Korangi, Jackson, Ferozabad, Brigade, Aziz Bhatti, Clifton and Frere.

As many as 12 cars, 34 motorcycles and 92 cellular phones were either snatched at gunpoint or stolen in different parts of the city on Wednesday.