Two people were killed in traffic accidents in different parts of the city while a teenage girl lost her life after falling from the fifth floor of a building in Lyari. An elderly man was killed in a traffic accident near Naseerabad stop in Federal B Area.
The deceased was identified as Qabil Khan, 64, a resident of Sohrab Goth. The deceased was traveling from Water Pump Chowrangi towards Ayesha Manzil in a CNG rickshaw with other passengers when he suddenly fell and was rushed to a nearby private hospital.
He was later shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he died. Separately, a man was killed in a traffic accident on his way to Malir from Quaidabad. His body was shifted to Jinnah Hospital. The deceased in her 50s was not identified immediately.
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Rescue officials said the accident occurred when an unidentified speeding vehicle hit the victim while he was crossing the road. Meanwhile, Qandal, 10, mysteriously fell from the balcony of the fifth floor of a residential building near Gharib Shah Market, New Kumbharwara in Lyari area and died.
Tortured body found Tortured body of an employee of a milk shop was found in North Nazimabad while another employee of the shop mysteriously went missing. Police are searching for him. The deceased was identified as Shehzad, 28. Another employee of the shop Salman alias Pappu was missing who also took away the victim's mobile phone with him.
Police are investigating. Strangled woman's case Police have widened the investigation into the incident in which woman's body was found strangled in a house near Namak Bank, BR Society in Buffer Zone. The body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the deceased was identified as Kaniz Fatima, 40, whose husband Haq Nawaz had informed the police that his wife had committed suicide by hanging herself. The body had a scarf wrapped around her neck.
Police said that as per the initial investigation, the deceased was Haq Nawaz's second wife whom he had married eight years ago while his first wife lives in Bahawalpur with whom he also has children. When Haq Nawaz came to his second wife's house, his son was also with him and he said that the body was found hanging.
The door was locked from inside which he broke to enter the house. However, the police said, the cause of the death would be ascertained after the postmortem report
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