Two shot dead in city

Karachi
Two men were gunned down in targeted attacks in different areas of the city on Friday night.
Asghar Ali, 20, was shot dead near Pehalwan Goth within the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police limits. According to SHO Irshad, the victim lived in the area and owned a small paan shop. It was at the shop that he was targeted by two men on a motorcycle who fled after shooting once in the head.
He was taken to the JPMC but was pronounced dead on arrival. Investigators termed the murder a target killing case.
In Lyari, 55-year-old Mohammed Rafiq was gunned down in Lea Market. Napier police SHO Azam Khan said the victim, a resident of Jamshed Town, owned a flour shop at the market.
He said Rafiq was shutting shop and about to leave when unidentified assailants drew up and opened fire at him. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi but succumbed to his injuries.
A MLO confirmed that Rafiq was shot five times on the chest. The murder was being seen by investigators as a target killing case and a probe had commenced.
A day earlier, a shopkeeper was gunned down by robbers on resistance in Orangi Town on Thursday.
Two armed men riding a motorcycle entered a bakery shop near Qasba Morr and ordered Anwer, 55, to hand over the cash. When he resisted, they opened fire at him and fled along with the money in the cash counter.
Anwer was taken the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in a critical condition, where during the treatment he breathed his last.
Separately, a middle-aged housewife, Goni, died due to electrocution in Faqeera Goth in Gulshan-e-Maymar area while attempting to make an illegal connection on a high voltage power line.
Also on Thursday, a mother of two committed suicide in the Liaquatabad area.
Qurat-ul-Ain, 36, locked herself in a room of her flat in the Al-Karam Square after quarrel with her husband and cut her vein with a sharp edged weapon.
After few hours when her husband found her lying in a pool of blood he immediately took her to the Sindh Government Hospital, where due to excessive loss of blood she expired.
Later, Qurat-ul-Ain’s body was shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities.
According to the police, the deceased was mother of two children and ended her life due to financial troubles.