Transgender person gunned down in Korangi Karachi April 6, 2021 An elderly transgender person was gunned down in Karachi’s Korangi neighbourhood on Monday. An Awami Colony police official said that the incident took place in Bilal Colony. The official said that two unidentified persons barged into the victim’s house, shot him and then escaped leaving him seriously wounded. The injured was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where he breathed his last during treatment, he added. The policeman identified the victim as 60-year-old Siddiq, alias Mumtaz, saying that he was a transgender person. The culprits had shot at him after asking for his name, he added. The official said that the murder might have been committed over a personal enmity, adding that the police have picked up two empty shell casings of a 30-bore pistol from the crime scene.