KARACHI: A suspected robber was beaten to death allegedly by a mob in Orangi Town on Monday.
Police said six bandits barged into the house of Tahir Hussain in Orangi Town’s Sector 11 ½ and started collecting valuables. However, they left the house when the family raised alarm alerting neighbours and area people.
The area people overpowered two of the fleeing bandits and beat them severely before handing them over to the police.
The Pakistan Bazaar police said that the suspects suffered serious injuries and were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where one of them, identified as Rashid Ahmed, died, while his accomplice, Hasan Salam, was admitted for treatment.
Man wounded in Lyari firing dies
A man who was wounded along with three others in an incident of firing in Lyari’s Kalri area late on Sunday night died at a hospital on Monday, police said.
They said that four men sustained bullet wounds and were taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi where Mohsin Khan, 32, died on Monday. Three others — Bilal, Idris and Junaid — were being treated at the hospital.
While SSP-City Sheraz Nazeer claimed that the incident appeared to be an outcome of infighting between two rival gangs in Lyari, Kalri police official said that they had no criminal record of the deceased or wounded.
Labourer found shot dead
A young labourer was found shot dead in Memon Goth on Monday, according to police.
They added that the body of 34-year-old Bashir Alam was found in an ice factory located in the same area in the morning.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. He sustained a single bullet wound in the chest.
Area SHO Rao Khalid said that the ice factory was closed and the victim lived there. The murder might be an outcome of some internal dispute, he said.
Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2014