An Afghan child was murdered in what police described as a dispute over garbage collection between two groups in Karachi city of Pakistan, local media reported.
Police in Surjani Town, where the incident took place, said five-year-old Shehzad Gul was bludgeoned to death in Sector-4B, The Nation newspaper reported.
They said the dispute erupted between two Afghans over the collection of garbage, which led to the murder.
The suspect(s) had been identified and police were waiting for the family to lodge an FIR to formally initiate legal proceedings, the police added.
Victim’s father Gul Mohammed told reporters that he had been collecting garbage from houses for the last one month. On Friday, his son and a daughter accompanied him to collect the garbage, he said. During the work, he left his both children for a while and went to another street and when he returned, he learnt that his son had been injured by hitting with a hard and blunt instrument.
