Karachi: Two more lose life in fresh firing incidents

KARACHI: Two more persons lost their lives in the on-going violence in the city on Wednesday, Geo News reported.

According to police, a man was killed when unknown armed attackers opened fire near the oil refinery in Korangi industrial area. The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) for identification and other medico-legal formalities.

In another incident of firing, a man was killed in Ganna Mandi area.

It is pertinent to mention that police recovered two bodies said to be of missing persons from Surjani Town area of Karachi.

The bodies were found near Hameed Nawaz Farm at Hub Dam Road and were of persons missing from different areas of Balochistan province. The victims were strangled to death.

A slip with the victims’ names was also found with the bodies, according to which they were identified as Haji Razzak, 35 son of Rasool Bakhsh and the other as 40-year-old Pathan son of Raheem Bakhsh.

The deceased were the residents of Sukkur Colony, Hub and their named were included in the list of missing persons.

Details have it that Haji Razzak was the sub-editor of a Balochi newspaper published from Karachi and was residing in the Lyari area. He went missing on March 24, 2013.

The sources told that a total of sixteen bodies of missing persons have so far been found from the same area, all hailing from Balochistan.