KARACHI: A young man was shot dead by armed robbers over resistance in Gulistan-i-Jauhar late on Sunday night, police said on Monday.

The Sharea Faisal police said Mehtab Shah, 23, was killed when he put up resistance to an armed robbery near Darul Sehat Hospital.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfill medico-legal formalities.

Couple found dead A couple was found dead in Sharifabad late Sunday night, police said.

They said bodies of Shabbir Sanaullah, 60, and his wife, Shakeela, 45, were recovered from an apartment on the first floor in Al-Karam Square.