While resisting robbery, a father and son were critically wounded, following which the son succumbed to his injuries in Karachi's Surjani Town, ARY News reported on Friday, citing police sources. This comes amid a rise in street crimes in Karachi in recent days.
During the investigation, it was revealed that the shells that were recovered from the crime sites did not match with the weapons used in previous offences.
Street crimes have increased at an alarming rate in Pakistan's Karachi as a Pakistani-Canadian national was allegedly shot dead by assailants for resisting a robbery bid in the Nazimabad area of Pakistan's Karachi, The News International reported.
As many as 12 street criminals were also killed in police encounters while 17 got injured. There were almost 300 cases of street crimes on a daily basis.
On Saturday evening, an explosion took place which was caused by the magnetic mine placed in a Toyota 'Hilux' vehicle, Khalid Zadran, Taliban's appointed spokesperson for the Kabul police Command.
Presenting a detailed copy of the criminal record in Pakistan's Karachi, Additional Inspector General (AIG) spokesperson said that 140 street crime incidents took place in the region in a single day.
Surge in crime rates in Pakistan's Karachi has developed fear and a growing sense of insecurity among the locals as around two-thirds of the population of the metropolis have experienced such incidents in one way or another and almost one-fourth have directly suffered the loss of lives.
Karachi [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): Pakistan political party Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has said that about four million women in Karachi, working in factories on a contract basis, are not given their due rights by their employers.