KARACHI, June 3: A 27-year-old worker of the Sunni Tehreek was found shot dead on Tuesday at a shrine off M. A. Jinnah Road, police said.
Risala police said they arrested one of the suspects, also an ST worker, for the murder, while another suspect was still untraceable.
They said the police on a tip-off recovered the trussed-up body of Abdul Wahab Quaderi alias Manu in a washroom at the Alam Shah Bukhari shrine in the small hours of Tuesday.
The police said they arrested Kashif Baig, 20, the caretaker of graves of ST men in the compound of the shrine.
They said Baig and his alleged accomplice, Mohammed Imran, were living in a room at the shrine. The police said the suspects killed the victim due to a dispute over a mobile phone and a motorcycle.
ST sources said both the victim and suspects were the party’s workers. They said the victim was a former personal security guard of an ST leader, Yamin Quaderi.
The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital, where sources said the victim was hit by a bullet that went through his skull.
Security guard killed
A private security guard of a prize bond dealer was killed by two bandits who also took away his repeater gun and Rs1 million prize bonds in Defence Housing Authority.
Gizri police said Abdul Aziz, bond dealer, was on his way with his guard, Mohammed Iqbal, in his Mehran car when two bandits on a motorcycle intercepted him near Sultan Masjid.
They said the robbers held the prize bond dealer and his guard hostage at gunpoint and snatched prize bonds and the repeater from them.
The bandits became jittery and opened fire when the security guard struggled with them.
The body of the 35-year-old guard was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where paramedics said the victim was shot from a very close range as the bullet went through his upper torso.
The victim was a resident of Kala Pull and originally hailed from Abbottabad.
Suspect killed
A suspected robber was killed by his victim in Korangi 1.
Zaman Town police said a gang of six dacoits entered a cold drink agency near Chakra Goth at around 3:30pm and held the owner, Shahabuddin, and his employee hostage at gunpoint.
They said the intruders robbed Rs15,000 and two mobile phones at gunpoint and decamped with the booty. The police said the victim opened fire with his licensed pistol on the fleeing dacoits, killing one of them.
The body was shifted to the JPMC where the bandit, wearing shalwar-qamees, remained unidentified. Later, the body was kept at Edhi’s morgue for identification.
Three killed in accident
A couple and their nine-year-old daughter were killed when a fast moving truck hit their motorcycle on the National Highway near Steel Mills.
The bodies were brought to the JPMC, where the victims were identified as Imdad Ali Jokhio, his wife Jannat Bibi and their daughter Meena.
The victims were residents of Aachar Goth near Ghaggar Phaatak.
Witnesses said people caught the driver of the truck on the spot. They said the onlookers also beat up the driver, identified as Ijaz, before handing him over to the police.
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