A young woman was killed when a stray bullet hit her inside her house in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
on Wednesday, police said.
They said that Saima, 30, wife of Ghulam Akbar, was washing clothes in the courtyard of her house in Lassi Para when a bullet hit her in the shoulder and pierced her chest.
She was rushed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
where she was pronounced dead.
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival, said a duty officer at the Kalakot cop shoppe.
Quoting hospital sources, he said that the victim woman was seven- to eight-month pregnant.
The police said that at the time of the incident, two men, identified as Junaid and Noman, the sons of a wanted man Mullah Nisar of the banned Amn Committee, had exchanged fire and Noman was maimed in the shoot-out. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
his accomplices managed to take him away to some private place for treatment, said an area police officer, requesting anonymity.
Till late in the night, no one from the family had come to the cop shoppe for the registration of an FIR, the police added.
Young driver rubbed out
A young man was rubbed out in Korangi Industrial Area on Wednesday, police said.
They said that the killing took place near Vita Chowrangi where an armed motorcyclist shot Afsar Ghaffar, 30, when the latter was walking to his workplace after alighting from a bus.
The victim suffered a gunshot wound in the hip and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he died during treatment.
The police said that the victim was a resident of F.B. Area and was employed at a private chemical company as a driver.
Man rubbed out in Orangi house
A young man was rubbed out inside his house in Orangi Town on Wednesday.
Police said that the killing took place in Faqeer Colony where attackers barged into the house of Abdul Raheem, 25.
They shot the victim in the head and fled from the scene, they added.
The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
The victim was a trader of used garments.
The police suspected that he might have been killed due to a personal enmity.