KARACHI: A teenage girl and her class
fellow were found shot dead inside their classroom along with handwritten
suicide notes shortly after gunshots were heard by the faculty and students
gathering for the morning assembly session at a private school near Patel Para
in the Soldier Bazaar area on Tuesday.
Police investigators believed that 16-year-old Nauroz Hamidi
killed his classmate Saba Fatima Bashir, 15, before shooting himself dead with
the licensed pistol of her father, as the two had decided to end their lives
after finding that their families were unhappy about their friendship.
As the girl’s mother told Dawn she was unaware of her daughter’s
friendship with the boy and the family of Nauroz left their home to some
unknown place following the deaths, the incident remained shrouded in mystery.
“It was around 8am when the students were gathering for assembly
in Gulshan-i-Fatima Primary and Secondary School near Patel Para,” said Jamshed
Town SP Akhtar Farooq. “A few minutes before the assembly, the students and
teachers heard two gunshots with hardly a three- to four-second gap. It
triggered panic and they started running for safety, but someone finally found
that the shooting was carried out inside the ground floor classroom.”
The teenagers were lying in a pool of blood with two handwritten
notes placed on the nearby desks, said the SP Jamshed Town. The Urdu notes were
transliterated into the Roman alphabet, he added.
The bodies were later moved to the Civil Hospital Karachi and
then police moved in to collect evidence and gather details.
“It emerged during the investigation that the two liked each
other but their parents opposed their involvement. It has not happened
suddenly, as the two had been planning this for days.
“The girl brought her father’s licensed pistol which we have
seized. We have also taken her father on board for further investigation. The
boy shot the girl in the head before killing himself,” he said.
He said the police investigators were convinced that it was a
“deliberate” step taken by both with “mutual understanding”, and nobody was forced
to take the extreme move.
The girl’s body was handed over to her family after autopsy, he
said. “The case has not yet been registered as the family is in a state of
shock. We will move further once they are done with the burial and other
formalities,” the officer said. Dawn
Nauroz belonged to Afghanistan
Soon after the incident
took place, rumours surfaced that Nauroz belonged to Gilgit. But our source
confirmed that he hailed from Afghanistan. He
gave status on his Facebook 2 days before about his committing Suicide. He has left a suicide
note where he talks of marrying his class fellow whom he killed.
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