KARACHI: Road criminals are on the free in Karachi as they shot useless a younger man within the metropolis’s SITE-Superhighway Industrial Space, Geo Information reported on Thursday.
Within the mugging incident that occurred earlier this week, a person named Farhan — who was returning residence after promoting his spouse’s jewelry to finance his daughter’s remedy — was gunned down by the muggers on the road, in response to the sufferer’s household.
Farhan, who labored for pharmaceutical firm, was going through monetary difficulties attributable to his daughter’s sickness.
He acquired three bullets throughout the theft incident, stated the sufferer’s father-in-law, who added that neither a case was registered nor the suspects had been arrested up to now.
The daddy-in-law added that the incident occurred on Tuesday, however the police didn’t contact the household and solely requested them to go to the police station to get a primary info report registered once they had been on the hospital.
The event comes simply days after Karachi Police chief Javed Alam Odho claimed that road crimes within the metropolis have dropped by 50% within the first quarter of 2024. Deaths owing to road crimes within the metropolis, nevertheless, have surpassed the 100 mark tally.
With town’s regulation and order scenario left on the mercy of the road criminals, instances of deaths ensuing from road crime carry on rising.
Individually, a person named Umair was killed in a firing incident after his automotive was shot at close to the Mubarak Mosque in Karachi’s Defence space.
In response to the police, the incident displays a case of private enmity. On the time of the incident, he was ready for somebody for 15 to twenty minutes and was talking on telephone.
Within the meantime, two males on a bike opened hearth at his automotive, leaving him riddled with seven bullets.
Road crimes in Karachi are rampant with greater than 50,000 incidents documented by the Residents-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) between January and August this yr.
It must be famous that the aforementioned quantity solely displays reported instances, however there could also be numerous different incident which have gone unreported.
The determine exhibits that on a median, 208 prison instances are reported every day within the metropolis, with the snatching and stealing of cellphones, automobiles and motorbikes being the commonest.
Not solely have folks been disadvantaged of their precious possessions in these instances however some 100 folks have additionally misplaced their lives by the hands of the road criminals. Practically 500 others have additionally been wounded because of the gunshots fired by the robbers.