KARACHI: A person shot useless his widowed aunt and her neighbour within the identify of so-known as honour at her residence within the Manghopir space on Monday, police mentioned.

They mentioned that the suspect killed Shehzadi, 30, and Nawab Khan, 25, in Yar Mohammad Goth. The official mentioned that Nawab Khan used to go to her residence. When the suspect discovered them in the home on Sunday evening, he first attacked them with a tough and blunt object after which opened fireplace on them, killing them on the spot.

Area SHO Majid Alvi mentioned that the girl’s husband had handed away round three years in the past and since then she had been dwelling alone with her three kids.

The our bodies had been shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital to satisfy medico-authorized formalities. The SHO mentioned that the suspect had been arrested and the homicide weapon was additionally recovered from his possession.

‘Wanted carjacker’ shot useless in ‘encounter’

Police claimed to have shot useless a suspected carjacker in an ‘encounter’ off Superhighway on Monday, in line with officers.

They mentioned that the encounter passed off between Anti-Vehicles Lifting Cell and two suspected carjackers close to Chakar Hotel through which one of many suspects recognized as Iftikhar Luqman was gunned down whereas his confederate managed to flee.

They mentioned that the deceased was concerned in a number of incidents of lifting autos in Karachi. Besides, he was needed in additional than 20 instances of carjacking in Sahiwal, Khanewar, Mia Channu, Toba Tek Singh and a number of other different districts of Punjab, they mentioned.

“He was probably the most needed suspect concerned within the autos’ lifting,” claimed the AVLC.

Police discovered a automotive in his possession that was stolen within the jurisdiction of Gulberg police. The physique was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, mentioned the officers.

Published in Dawn, November twenty first, 2023