KARACHI, March 8: A real estate agent was gunned down in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Tuesday, police said.

They added that 42-year-old Munawwar Iqbal was alone at his office situated outside an apartments building in block 7 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar when he was targeted.

“Four men on two motorbikes stopped outside his office, called M.M. Marketing,” said an official at the Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station. “Two of them got off their motorbikes and entered the office where one of the two armed men fired at him before all the four sped away,” he said quoting a witness account.

The official said the victim was hit by three bullets each in head, chest and abdomen and died on the spot. The body was later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

The police during initial investigations found personal reasons behind the attack. They said the victim had a history of property disputes, though they were not sure if that motivated the killing.

“Before setting up the Gulistan-i-Jauhar office, he had an office in block 4 of Gulshan-i-Iqbal. It emerged that he shifted the office after having a dispute with someone,” said Gulistan-i-Jauhar SHO Inspector Asif Jakhrani.

He said the victim was a resident of Safoora Goth, married, with two daughters.

Fisherman hammered to deathThe body of a 40-year-old fisherman with visible marks of torture and wounds on the head was found in Ibrahim Hyderi, police said.

They added that the victim received repeated strikes in the head with a ‘hard and blunt substance’. “The body was found near an area called Charanji,” said an official at the Ibrahim Hyderi police station.

“He lived in a rented room in the same area, known as fishermen’s neighbourhood,” the official said, adding that the victim did not have a family.

“Initial findings of a medico-legal examination of the body at the JPMC show that the victim was hit in the head from back by some hard and blunt substance that caused his death,” he added.