At least four persons, including a political activist, were killed in different incidents of violence in the city on Friday. Dilawar Khan, 35, was gunned down in Sector 11-1/2 of Orangi Town in the limits of Orangi Town police station. The deceased, police said, lived in Orangi Town's Sector 13-D. Police said that unknown armed men opened fire on him near Gabol Town.
The deceased was a worker of MQM's Unit No122. The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). A man named Shahid, 35, was killed over a personal dispute in Kachhi Para in the limits of Mochko police station. According to details an accused named Iqbal shot and killed Shahid over a personal dispute. The body was shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi.
A young couple, who were later identified as 22-year-old Ahmed Raza Qureshi and Bushra Baluch, 20, was found dead near Moach Goth graveyard in the limits Mochko police station. The bodies were shifted to hospital. The young man lived in Usmanabad while the young woman lived in Salar Compound in Lyari, police said, adding that the couple had an affair which might be the motive for murder.