In two separate incidents, a man was shot dead by his friend in Malad and an unidentified man fired shots towards a flat in Goregaon on Thursday.

In the first incident, the Malad police recovered the body of 37-year-old man at the open plot of an under-construction site near the Kalpataru Tower, off Goregaon-Mulund link road, at around 6:15 pm. The deceased, identified as Rakesh Yadav, suffered injuries on his chest and back. Although the police initially thought that Yadav was attacked by someone with a sharp weapon, they suspected that it was a gunshot wound, which was later confirmed in the post-mortem report.