Montag, 15. Oktober 2012

Violence claims 10 lives in Karachi, Pakistan

Source : Xinhua English.news

Violence claims 10 lives in Karachi, Pakistan

English.news.cn 2012-10-15 23:08:18

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) --At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Monday, police said.

Some unknown gunmen opened fire at a shop in Abul Hasan Isphahani Road of the city in the evening, killing four people right on the spot.

Spokesman for the religious group Ahl-e-Sunnat said all the four dead were their party workers.

Police termed the incident as a target killing.

In the afternoon, four people were injured when two unknown militants riding a motorbike hurled a cracker at a spare parts shop near Napier Police Station Karachi. The miscreants fled from the scene after the attack.

In North Nazimabad area, two people were killed by unknown gunmen. Meanwhile, a police constable was shot dead in Baldia Town area, bringing the police death toll to 67 during the current year in Karachi.

In the morning, a middle-aged man was gunned down by unknown armed assailants in North Karachi Sector 5. Police later said that the killed man was an activist of a political party.

Another man was killed in a similar incident of firing by unknown gunmen in Landhi area.

In Dalmia area, a suspected extortionist was killed during exchange of fire with police.

An additional number of police and rangers has been reportedly deployed in the city to maintain law and order, however, the police has failed to apprehend any of the killers yet.

The incidents of target killing notably increased in Karachi over the last two years, during the first nine months of the current year, an estimated 1,725 people including 227 political activists were murdered in targeted killings, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said.


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