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Muggers kill youth for putting up resistance in Landhi
Karachi
May 24, 2021
A young man was shot and killed for offering resistance during a mugging bid in the Landhi area of the city in early Sunday hours.
According to police, the incident took place near the Karbala Ground in Landhi where unidentified muggers shot and killed 25-year-old Kashan after he put up resistance during a mugging bid.
Reacting to the information, police and rescuers reached the scene and transported the casualty to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. Following the incident, a large number of people gathered at the scene and held a protest. The protesters claimed that the incidents of street crime were rising in the area as recently four people were also wounded during a mugging bid in the same locality. Police have registered a case over the young man’s murder.
KARACHI: A suspected robber was shot dead and another wounded by a citizen on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road in Gulshan-i-Iqbal near Abbas Town early on Wednesday morning.
The Sachal police said that two gunmen intercepted a car and snatched valuables from Zohaib Ali. When they were fleeing after the robbery, the citizen took out his licensed pistol and opened fire on them, injuring both the suspects.
The police claimed that one of the suspects, in his early 20s, died on the spot. His body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where his identity could not be ascertained immediately.
The injured suspect, identified as Abdullah Shah, 22, was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment, said an Edhi Foundation spokesperson.