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| India-Pakistan |
| Death toll rises to 47 in Karachi violence |
| 2011-07-08 |
| [Dawn] At least 47 people have been killed in Bloody Karachi in the past 36 hours, DawnNews reported. The fresh wave of violence in the city began on Tuesday. Ten people were killed on that day and another 19 people, including five passengers of a minibus, were killed on Wednesday. The violence which broke out in Orangi Town spread to Lyari, Baldia Town, Site and Gulshan-i-Iqbal areas. Police said that gunnies hijacked the minibus from Rashid Minhas Road and shot the five passengers, three of them relatives, in the head. The assailants managed to escape after dumping the vehicle in the Ziaul Haq Colony in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. In a few hours after Wednesday midnight, at least five people were killed in different parts of the city. A front man for the Awami National Party claimed that at least two of its workers were killed and seven maimed in incidents of firing on Wednesday. Although the government claimed to have sent further reinforcements of police and Rangers to the affected areas, law-enforcement personnel failed to quell the violence. Police claimed it locked away over 100 individuals suspected of being involved in the violence. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Have they caught up to Chicago yet? |
| Posted by: tipover 2011-07-08 02:53 |