KARACHI, Jan 5: A 15-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet in PIB Colony on Thursday morning, police said.

They said that the incident took place in Welfare Colony where Usman, son of Haji Mastan Gul, was sitting at a bookshop outside a private school in the area.

At around 7.30am a stray bullet hit the boy in the neck, the police said, adding that he was taken to a nearby private hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The family took away the body without allowing any legal formality, the police added.

The area police said that the boy was a son of the school's owner who also had a business in Sabzi Mandi.

Till the filing of this report, an FIR in connection with the incident was yet to be registered.

Man found shot dead

A young man found dead near Gharibabad, Essa Nagri, was taken to a hospital by a rickshaw driver on Thursday, police said, quoting the hospital sources as saying.

A police official at the PIB Colony police station said that the rickshaw driver fled from Abbasi Shaheed Hospital after leaving the body there.

The victim's body bore two gunshot wounds in each shoulder, the police added.

The computerised national identity card recovered from the victim identified him as 40-year-old Saeed, son of Wakil Khan hailing from Kohat and resident of Itthad Town in Karachi, the police said.

The jurisdiction of the case also became a matter of dispute between the PIB Colony and the Liaquatabad police stations as neither of the police stations were ready to accept that the body had been found in their limits.

A duty officer at the PIB Colony police station said: “We will complete the formalities if other police station does not accept their responsibility, but we are waiting for the family to turn up.”

The body was shifted to the Edhi morgue after completing legal formalities.

Teenager dies as gun goes off

A teenager was shot dead in his house in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Wednesday night when he was cleaning his father's pistol which went off by accident, police said.

They said that the incident occurred when 18-year-old Agha Sher Afghan was reportedly cleaning his father's licensed pistol in their house in Noman Avenue and the gun went off by accident, the area SHO said.

The teenager was critically wounded and died before he could be taken to hospital, the police added.

The family refused any legal formality and took away the body, police added.