As many as six people were killed and two others injured in separate violence incidents in the city on Thursday.
A person, Shahid Qureshi, 60, son of Ashfaq Qureshi, was shot dead by unidentified armed men near Shipowner area in North Nazimabad. The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for an autopsy.
The North Nazimabad Station House Officer (SHO) informed that two armed men entered house No B/5-D near Shipowner, shot Shahid Qureshi dead and escaped. The motive behind the incident was described as personal enmity, he said. In another incident, a youth, Adnan, 25, was gunned down by unknown armed men near Nala Stop in New Karachi. The body was shifted to ASH for medico-legal formalities.
Yet in another incident, a youth, Azmat, 25, son of Hashim, was shot dead by unidentified persons near W-11 bus Stop in Gulshan-e-Maymar. The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center JMC for an autopsy.
A girl, Rozina, daughter of Abdul Ghafoor, was found strangulated to death from a house in Ahsanabad, Gulshan-e-Maymar. The body was shifted to ASH for medico-legal formalities.
Separately, Police Inspector (PI) Amir Raza, 46, son of Syed Shakir Hussain, was injured when his pistol went off accidentally at Falaknaz Plaza along Shahrah-e-Faisal. He was shifted to JPMC for treatment. According to police sources, Raza, Incharge of 15-Korangi police, was injured by accidental fire from his own pistol outside Falaknaz Plaza. The bullet hit his head when he was sitting at the office of open eyes welfare near his house.
Ali, 3, son of Aslam, resident of Nusrat Bhotto colony, North Karachi, was electrocuted in his home. The body was shifted to ASH for medico-legal formalities. Zakia Bano, 60, residence of Nazimabad, was drowned in well in his home. The body was shifted to ASH for an autopsy.
Meanwhile, a woman, Rubina, 35, wife of Saeed Ahmed, was shot and injured by a stray bullet in her house in Dabba Colony. She was shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) for treatment. The Madina Colony SHO informed that Rubina was brought injured from Dabba Colony Baldia.