KARACHI:
Two people, including a policeman, were killed in separate incidents of violence in the city on Thursday.
According to police, unidentified armed men shot and injured two men on Shah Waliullah Road in Nayabad Area of Lyari. Kalri police shifted the injured to Civil hospital, where one of them died. SHO Aftab Rind said that the deceased had been identified as Abur Rahim Niazi, 27, while the injured was a 25-year-old passerby, Mohammad Azam.
Rind said that Niazi received a phone call before the incident and went to the spot where the attackers were lying in wait. The assailants managed to flee the scene.
Meanwhile, unidentified armed men gunned down a man in Bawan Chali area. SHO Khushi Mohammad said that three men riding two motorcycles stopped a young pedestrian. After exchanging some words with him, they shot him seven times and fled. The police believe that the incident was caused by personal enmity.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 29th, 2014.
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