KARACHI, Sept 10: Three young men, including a worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were shot dead on Wednesday in two separate attacks in different parts of the city, police and witnesses said.

Landhi police said Shahzeb, son of Mohammed Salim, 23, and his friend, Mohammed Arif, son of Mohammed Umer, 22, were travelling on a motorcycle when at around 3.45am unknown attackers intercepted them near Baitul Hamza.

They said the attackers opened fire on the two friends, killing Shahzeb instantly.

The police said Arif ran away but he was caught by the culprits who killed him also and threw his body near Noor Manzil, Landhi, in the evening.

They said both the victims were jobless.

The police said victim Shahzeb was a resident of Khurrumabad and his friend lived in 37-B, Landhi.

The police registered a case (FIR 195/08) against unknown culprits for the double murder on the complaint of victim Shahzeb’s father, Mohammed Salim.

The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where sources said the victims had received multiple bullet wounds from a close range.

Muttahida man killed

A 25-year-old worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was gunned down in front of his house (E-158) at MPR Colony in Orangi Town, police said.

The Pakistan Bazaar police said the victim, Basit Hussain, son of Abid Hussain, was standing in front of his house at about 1.45pm when two assailants on a motorcycle sprayed him with bullets.

They said the man died instantly and his body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination.

The police said a six-year-old girl, Saira Anver, daughter of Mohammed Anver, was also wounded in the incident.

Hospital sources said the victim, a worker at a marble factory, received at least eight bullets in his upper torso from a very close range as most of the bullets went through his body.

They said the girl had sustained a bullet wound in the leg and she was in a stable condition.

Twine kills carpenter

A 28-year-old man was killed when the twine of a stray kite slit his throat near Water Pump.

Samanabad police said the victim, Mohammed Afzal, son of Mohammed Fazil, was returning home at a shantytown near Abul Hasan Ispahani Road on his motorcycle a little before Iftar when the twine slit his throat.

SHO Inspector Tariq Malik said the victim was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

He said the man, married with two children, was a carpenter by profession. He hailed from Khanewal, he added.

The SHO said the body was later handed over to the victim’s brothers, Ismail and Shabbir, who did not want any legal proceedings as they thought the man was killed incidentally.

Woman killed in accident

A 40-year-old woman was knocked down by a fast-moving minibus near Eidgah traffic signal on M. A. Jinnah Road.

Arambagh police said Hazoori, wife of Qalander Khan, was crossing the road when she was hit by the minibus (JE-5589).

The police booked and arrested the minibus driver, Manzoor Hussain, and impounded his vehicle.