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Official says suspect beat his father with an iron pipe over an argument and fled afterwards. Reuters/File
KARACHI: A man “suffering from some mental disorder” beat his elderly father to death in Khawaja Ajmer Nagri on Friday, police said.
They said the suspect identified as Shahid in his early 30s used to stay mostly at home in Zarina Colony for the past couple of years.
It is said that Shahid was suffering from “mental stress” due to unemployment and financial crisis.
“His neighbours also recalled several incidents in which Shahid engaged in fights and argued with people,” said an official at the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri police station.
Law enforcers and rescuers at the site of the explosion on Tuesday evening. INP
KARACHI: At least eight people were killed and 30 others injured when the boiler of a New Karachi factory exploded on Tuesday destroying the infrastructure and power supply system of the densely populated neighbourhood, officials and eyewitnesses said.
The powerful blast destroyed the ground-plus-one factory structure and badly damaged two other neighbouring industrial units while shattering the windowpanes of houses in the adjoining residential block.
The officials and witnesses said that a large section of the boiler was flung into the air and landed some 250 yards away that damaged a few other industrial units in the area and also hit the residential facilities in the thickly populated neighbourhood.