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| One killed, six vehicles torched in Karachi violence |
| 2010-01-22 |
| [Dawn] A man was killed and six others were wounded in incidents of violence that erupted in parts of the metropolis following the killing of a local builder on Wednesday evening, police said. They said that six vehicles were set on fire in different blocks of Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The violence was restricted mainly to some parts of now defunct district East. The police believed that the violence erupted following the killing of a builder, who was targeted in his office in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. They said that unidentified assailants entered the office of Rehman Builders situated in Gulistan-i-Jauhar Block 19. They held a brief conversation with the builder, Zareen Khan, and opened indiscriminate fire, the police said. The police said that Zareen Khan and his associate, Mohammad Wali, suffered bullet wounds and were taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared the builder dead. The assailants managed to escape. Although the police believed that the incident appeared to be a result of some personal feud, after some hours unidentified persons turned violent and torched at least six vehicles in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. Some people also resorted to heavy firing into the air, which forced shopkeepers to close down their business and suspended vehicular traffic on the otherwise busy roads. The police said that of the six vehicles, three cars and one auto-rickshaw were set on fire on a road linking Rashid Minhas Road and Jauhar Chowrangi. However, despite the fact that a fire station is located in Block 16 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar, the only fire tender stationed there was not moved out in the area apparently due to the precarious law and order situation. Later in the night incidents of indiscriminate firing were reported from different city areas including Shah Faisal Colony, Quaidabad, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Abul Hasan Ispahani Road. One person, identified as Atif, was killed and Haseeb was wounded in the firing of unknown persons in Natha Khan Goth within the remit of the Shah Faisal Colony police station. Till the filing of this report, it was unclear whether they were targeted or suffered bullet wounds due to firing into the air. In another incident of firing in Quaidabad area, two persons, Naseer and Fahim, suffered bullet wounds. However, when contacted for his version, the DIG East, Abdul Khalique Shaikh, said that no one was reported killed in the violence and only three vehicles were set on fire. Meanwhile, the coordination committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement strongly condemned the violence in which unknown persons torched vehicles of innocent citizens. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 That's, probably, some business dispute. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-01-22 02:30 |