Third-year Hamdard University student shot dead during mugging in Karachi – Pakistan

A third-year medical student at Hamdard University was shot dead during a robbery incident in Karachi on Thursday morning, police and her family said.

The victim, identified as Misbah, 24, was sitting with her father in her car while waiting for her university's local bus near Mochi Mor in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighborhood when two assailants approached them on a motorcycle , your uncle. Kashif Ahmed said Dawn.

The thieves assaulted the girl's father at gunpoint. Then they went to the other side of the car and opened fire, hitting Misbah near his eye, Ahmed said.

According to the victim's uncle, the thieves did not take anything away from Misbah and only assaulted his father. The family are residents of the town of Abid Town.

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) East Amir Farooqi said it was "obvious" that the incident was a case of theft.

He said the girl was not shot because she had resisted the theft. Instead, one of the two thieves dropped his gun into the car; Then he picked it up and opened fire in a state of panic.

The thieves, who witnesses say were young, fled the scene towards Sohrab Goth.

Another officer, Gulshan SP Shahnawaz Chachar, said the suspects took a mobile phone and a wallet from the girl's father.

Misbah suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, confirmed Dr. Seemin Jamali, executive director of the Jinnah Graduate Medical Center.

A spent bullet shell fired with a 9mm gun was recovered from the car and sent to the police forensic science laboratory to determine if the same weapon had been used in past crimes. Police investigators said the killers were just over 20 years old and used shalwar kameez.

The victim's funeral prayers were offered at a local mosque and students from his university team also attended.

Meanwhile, Sindh's police chief, Syed Kaleem Imam, noticed the student's murder and looked for a detailed report from the SSP East, a police spokesman said.