A Suzuki driver was gunned down by robbers in Malir, bringing the toll of the mugging victims killed this year to 36. Four others were wounded in street crime, while the manager of a restaurant near Sea View was injured in a shooting allegedly by an impatient customer.
According to details, unidentified motorcyclists shot a man dead after he resisted an attempt to mug him in Sumar Kandhani Goth of Malir within the limits of the Memon Goth police station.
After receiving information, police and rescue workers reached the site and took the casualty to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where he was identified as 23-year-old Shahnawaz, son of Huzoor Bakhsh. According to the preliminary investigation of the police, the deceased was a driver at a factory, and he had left work with his colleagues around the time of the incident.
Police said that the suspects tried to stop the man, so he hit them with his vehicle and made them fall down, adding that one of the robbers then fired at him, hitting him in the back.The victim hailed from rural Sindh. His body was handed over to his heirs after completing the legal proceedings.
Police have registered a case and launched an investigation.Four woundedTwo people were injured by the firing of armed robbers near the Afghan Cut area in the Gulshan-e-Maymar police remits.
They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they were identified as 30-year-old Lal Zada and 35-year-old Mursalin.
