A teenage girl, who was a student of class six, was shot dead when an attendant at a wedding ceremony shot off resorted to aerial firing in celebration, in the remit of the Mehmoodabad police station on Sunday.
The incident took place in Chanesar Goth when the deceased girl, identified as Hina, daughter of Iqbal, was playing with her neighbours' children outside her house.
Police officials said a bullet hit the girl when one of the attendants at the wedding ceremony of Shahzad, who was the neighbour of the victim, started aerial firing. The girl was immediately shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centrewhere she succumbed to her injuries while receiving medical treatment. The police said neither a case was registered, nor anyone arrested till the filing of this report.
Separately, a 35-year-old man, who was yet to be identified at the time of this report, was killed when a goods train hit him at the railway track near Malir Bridge, in the jurisdiction of Drigh Road Railway police station. |