Karachi security guard attempts suicide by shooting himself with rifle

KARACHI: A security guard allegedly attempted suicide by shooting himself with his rifle in PECHS Block 2, police told ARY News.

The security guard remains unconscious at a hospital and has not regained consciousness so far.

ARY News has obtained CCTV footage from near the crime scene, showing the security guard in the street.

According to the footage, other security guard and people ran in the opposite direction after hearing the sound of gunfire. An ambulance was immediately called to shift the injured guard to hospital.

Police said the security guard’s rifle was recovered from the crime scene along with the shell of the fired bullet.

According to police, the guard allegedly placed the rifle against his body and fired, causing the bullet to pass through his body.

Police officials said there was a large wound on the front of his body, while the wound where the bullet exited from his back was smaller.

Further legal proceedings are underway.

In a similar incident reported on August 3, a 23-year-old security guard shot himself with his rifle in Karachi’s Scheme 33.

According to ARY News, the incident occurred outside a rice shop near a residential society. Security guard Sagheer Ahmed was standing outside the shop when he suddenly pointed his rifle towards his chest and fired, injuring himself.

Video footage showed the shopkeeper coming outside and finding the security guard lying on the floor.

Police officials said the private security company guard was shifted to a hospital for medical treatment, where he was admitted to the ICU.