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[SIZE=4]KARACHI: Fashion designer found shot dead[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3] By Our Staff Reporter[/SIZE]
KARACHI, Aug 30: A fashion designer and a constable were killed on Saturday in separate acts of violence in the city, police and witnesses said.
Clifton police said the trussed-up body of 37-year-old designer Shaikh Amir Hasan was found in his DHA Phase-5 flat where he was living alone.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where sources said the victim had been shot three bullets, two in the face and one to the head, from point-blank range as the bullets pierced through his skull.
The SHO of Clifton, Ishaq Lashari, told Dawn that the victim�s driver reached Amir Hasan�s flat in the morning and found him shot dead.
He said the driver informed one of the victim�s friends, Faisal, about the incident. �Faisal reported the matter to police control at around 12 noon,� he added.
The victim, who hailed from Lahore, was also associated with a private TV channel.
The police registered a case against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim�s younger brother, Jawad Hussain.
They said that two domestic servants of the victim were taken into custody for questioning.
The police said that some friends of the victim had visited him the previous night. They said the investigation was under way and efforts were being made to track down those who visited the victim at his flat the previous night.
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