KARACHI, Aug 15: Bodies of two young friends, who had been missing since Sunday evening, were found stuffed in gunny bags in Federal B Area on Monday morning, police said.

They said that two suspicious bags were found along the boundary wall of the UBL Sports Complex in Federal B Area's block 15 half an hour before sunrise.

“If was after the Sahar time when some area people found the bags when they were going to offer Fajr prayers,” said Inspector Javed Brohi, the SHO of the Jauharabad police station.

“They informed the police who reached the scene, examined the bags and discovered the bodies. The victims were clad in shalwar-kameez and had sustained two bullet wounds each in the chest and head.”

He said the bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

In the second half of the day, he added, the family of one of the victims came to the Edhi morgue and recognised the body as of their loved one.

The victims were identified as Zubair Khan and Liaquat Khan, residents of a goth situated along the Superhighway. “Both victims were friends. Zubair worked as a liftman in a Gulshan-i-Iqbal apartment complex and Liaquat was employed as a waiter with an eatery in the same area,” the area SHO said.

Boy killed in Qasba

An exchange of gunfire between two groups near the Kati Pahari area left a 12-year-old boy dead, police said.

They said that the intense firing an hour before sunset also left a 50-year-old man wounded.

“The victim boy has been identified as Naseeb Khan, who sold eatable stuff near Kati Pahari,” said Inspector Pervez Gujjar, the SHO of the Pirabad police station. “The exchange of gunfire was for a brief period and guns fell silent when the police reached there. The wounded man was identified as Muhammad Nasim.”

However, the police remained clueless about the latest incident behind the clash between the two groups in the strife-hit area.'Sectarian killing'

A 24-year-old hairdresser was shot dead in an Orangi Town locality by armed riders on Monday.

Police suspected that the motive behind the incident was sectarian.

“There is a shop called Asif Beauty Salon in Sector 11-L in Orangi Town,” said Inspector Iqbal Market, the SHO of the Iqbal Market police station.

“Three men on a motorbike stopped outside and two of them entered the shop. One of them fired at Asif, who sustained three bullet wounds and died on the spot.”

He said the victim was a resident of the same area and had been running the shop for the last several years.

“He might have been targeted on sectarian grounds,” added the area SHO.