Karachi violence: Five corpses found in gunny bags

Four shot dead in separate acts of target killing.

KARACHI:

Two political workers, a private school principal and a suspected criminal were gunned down in separate acts of target killings in Karachi on Friday.

Moreover, bodies of five men were also found stuffed in gunny bags from different parts of the metropolis.

The local head of Pakistan Peoples Party for UC-11, Orangi Town, Naseem Mohammad and a PPP worker, Arman Khurram Aftab, were standing in the street near Essa Hotel in Orangi Town when two men riding a motorcycle shot them and escaped, SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said. A three-year old girl was also wounded in the incident.

Earlier in Orangi Town, Abdul Matin, 60, was shot dead by motorcycle riders when he was walking to the Crescent School in Aligarh Colony. SHO Afridi said Matin was the principal of the private school and had no links with any political or religious party. Initial investigation suggests that he was killed over a family feud.

Thirty-year-old Ghulam Sabir was shot and killed by motorcyclists near his home in Liaquat Basti within the limits of PIB Colony police station.

DSP Nasir Lodhi said the deceased had been involved in several cases of robbery and narcotics.



Tortured bodies

The bodies of three young men were found stuffed in gunny bags from Hub River Road within the limits of Mochko police station. They were tortured to death.

They were identified as Abdul Razzak, 28, an employee of KESC, Mohammad Aslam, 25, and Irfan Ali, 28. SHO Haji Liaquat said that all the three victims were friends and lived in the same area.

Another gunny bag stuffed with the body of a young man tortured to death was found near the Kashti Chowk within the limits of Napier police station. Police said the deceased was brutally tortured and then killed with one shot to the head. Similarly, SITE police also found the body of a youth near the Dalda Morr. Police said the deceased was tortured before being shot dead.

A woman, Naimat Bibi, 30, and her alleged paramour, Urf Pathan, 32, were gunned down inside a house in Bhens Colony within the limits of Sukkhan police station. Police said the woman’s husband, Barkat, was the prime suspect behind the incident.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24^th, 2013.