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| India-Pakistan |
| Karachi violence kills 18 |
| 2011-03-14 |
| [Geo News] In spite of the presence of president and prime minister in Bloody Karachi, the ongoing incidents of assassinations in the metropolitan city have so far left 18 people dead including political workers and a child while 18 others sustained injuries, Geo News reported Sunday. Miscreants set ablaze an office of a local organization and three vehicles. Unidentified attackers fired and killed a party worker, identified as Khurram, at his Pan shop in the busy area of Kharadar. This triggered a bout of heavy firing that spread a wave of tension in the entire area where enraged people set on fire a bus, truck and a rikshaw beside an office of a local organization. Two men named Musavir Bangash and Sikandar Chandio were bumped off by unknown gunnies at Jauhar Chowrangi in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area. Musavir was a resident of Pehalwan Goth whose brother had been incarcerated a few weeks ago. In another incident of firing in the same area, a political worker Asad Khan was killed and three others were maimed. In Garden area two bullet-riddled bodies of Adnan and Sami were found dumped while a worker of a religious party identified as Khadim Hussain was rubbed out in Orangi Town. Dead bodies of two youths with bullet wounds were recovered from Memon Goth, Malir and Super Highway. Armed attackers bumped off a 19-year old boy identified as Shams in SITE area. A firing incident also occurred in Azizabad area where men with guns riding a motor cycle fired and killed Noman, 23. Three men were maimed in similar incidents of firing in Baldia Town, Ghani Chowrangi and Kharadar. Tension spread in all these areas where patrolling by police and Rangers personnel was undertaken to maintain order. Latest reports have confirmed that a child who received injuries as a result of firing in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area later succumbed to his wounds and died. Injured and dead bodies have been shifted to hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and medical treatment, hospital sources said. |
| Posted by:Fred |