KARACHI, Dec 22: Two armed men were on Wednesday arrested following a shoot-out with police minutes after they shot dead a property dealer near Tariq Road, police said.

They said that the two armed men on a motorbike targeted a man, later identified as Arif Ali, near Jheel Park when he was parking his car.

“One of the armed men got off the bike and fired multiple shots at the victim,” said an official at the Ferozabad police station. “He sustained three bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he died.”

Hearing gunshots, a police patrol of the Ferozabad police station got alerted and it chased the two fleeing suspects.

The suspects fired at the police but after a brief shoot-out, the police managed to arrest them on Tariq Road, he added.

Ferozabad SHO Inspector Yaqoob Sammu said that the suspects were identified as Tahir and Faizan.

“They disclosed that they were following the victim right from his residence near Abul Hasan Ispahani Road in Gulshan-i-Iqbal,” he said. “A motorcycle bearing registration number KAB-0699 and two TT pistols were recovered from their possession. The police record shows that the bike was snatched near Nagan Chowrangi a few days ago.”

The area SHO said that the victim was a real estate dealer, but the motive behind the murder was not yet known.

Bullet-riddled body found

The bullet-riddled body of a young man was found in the Shershah area on Wednesday.

The area police said that a few transporters spotted the body lying in the bushes along the main Mauripur Road.

“The victim appears to be in his early thirties,” said Sub-Inspector Zafar Abro, the SHO of the Shershah police station. “He was clad in a pair of trousers and a shirt. He sustained five bullet wounds and the body also bore torture marks.”

He said no spent bullet casing was found near the place from where the body was spotted and it indicated that the victim had been shot dead somewhere else before the body was dumped at the isolated place.

The body was moved to the Civil Hospital Karachi for a post-mortem examination from where it was taken to the Edhi morgue in Sohrab Goth for want of identification.