Crime round-up: 'Toy' bombs injure three, policeman shot dead

A cracker bomb exploded when children were playing with it.

KARACHI: A police official was shot dead in an act of targeted killing while two children and a young man were injured in separate explosions on Friday.

A police head constable, 35-year-old Muhammad Aslam, was shot dead in an act of targeted killing in Orangi Town, within the limits of Mominabad police station. The victim was shot twice in the chest and died on the spot.

According to police, the deceased was on the way home from work when the assailants shot him dead. SHO Shahzad told The Express Tribune that Aslam had been posted at Mominabad police station since 2009 and used to live in the same area. The SHO suspected that the attack was carried out by members of a banned outfit.

In a separate incident, two brothers were injured by a cracker blast at Cheel Chowk, Lyari, within the limits of Kalakot police station. Police said that the brothers, fiveyear- old Shahjahan and sevenyear- old Rehan, were playing with a cracker bomb they had

found in a garbage dump when it exploded. Both the children were rushed to Civil Hospital, Karachi.

Separately, a young man was injured in an explosion inside his house, located in Shah Latif Town. The injured man was identified as Junaid Alam.

SHO Naeem Khan said that the police have detained both inhabitants of the house, including the injured person and his friend, Ashraf.

Alam told the police that he had found the tennis ball bomb in the street and assumed it was a tennis ball. When he had bounced it on the ground, it exploded.