University student gunned down in Karachi for resisting robbery

• The victim’s father says his son went out for the gym.
• He says Laraib was writing an accounting book.
• The father says the student was engaged, and set to marry in 2025.

KARACHI: A university student was shot dead in Karachi's Korangi area on Monday night while resisting a robbery attempt.

The rescue sources said the incident took place in Korangi's Allah Wala Town neighbourhood and the victim has been identified as Laraib, a private university student.

The victim’s father Muhammad Hussain said his son went out of the house for the gym. He said the student was writing a book as well and its data was saved in his cell phone for which he resisted the robbery attempt.

The father apprised the media that Laraib was engaged and his marriage was scheduled to take place in 2025.

Laraib’s brother Shahzaib said his brother was writing a book on Basic Accounting. Ruing over the police's failure to cope with such happenings, he said unfortunately the law enforcement agencies had failed to stop dacoity incidents in the metropolis.

Police said the victim was intercepted by two suspects while returning home from a gym. The suspect fired a bullet that hit the resident of Korangi area near his one eye, which turned out to be fatal.

A 30-bore pistol's empty bullet shell was found at the spot of the incident, said the police, adding that no mobile phone was found near the victim’s body. They said further investigation was underway.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Korangi Hassan Sardar said the young man possibly tried to catch the miscreants. He said they only fired once at the victim and bullet hit near his eye which claimed his life.

The SSP said police were in contact with the relatives and soon they would arrest the murderer. He said they were gathering surveillance camera footages from nearby buildings.

In a similar incident, a 21-year-old engineering student — Bilal Nasir — of the NED University of Engineering and Technology was shot dead in Karachi in December 2022. 

Bilal was gunned down within the limits of the Mobina Town Police Station when he offered resistance to two robbers who tried to snatch his mobile phone.

Later, Additional Inspector General of Police Jawed Alam Odho on December 17, 2022, had appealed to the Karachiites not to resist robbers, while talking about the shooting incident that led to the death of the young man for resisting while being mugged.