Two men were shot dead in different parts of the city, police said. They said that in Orangi Town a young man was killed and another wounded in a clash between neighbours. Mominabad SHO Asghar Kango said that a scuffle erupted between neighbours over throwing of garbage outside their homes in Gulshan-i-Ghazi near Madina Hospital. Initially, they exchanged words but later one of the suspects pulled out his pistol and opened fire. As a result, Naseer Latif, 30, was killed and Zakir Khan, 20, injured.
The area SHO said that the police rushed to the scene and managed to arrest main suspect Waliullah. A 60-year-old man was shot dead by unknown assailants in Water Board Colony within the remit of the Manghopir police station on Tuesday evening. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities. The police said that the victim could not be identified till late in the night. Meanwhile, Rangers and police arrested a five-member gang involved in robberies and street crime in the city.
In a joint raid on the basis of intelligence information, the law enforcers arrested five suspects involved in multiple incidents of robbery, theft, and street crime from Saeedabad, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, etc. A Rangers spokesperson said that the suspects were identified as Shaharyar alias Shera, Zeeshan alias Nari, Javed alias Gurkin, Shahriyar alias Sharta and Farhan.
