Around 10 people are killed and more than two dozen others injured in an attack by gunnies on a protest rally and ensuing violence in the southern Pakistain port city of Bloody Karachi....formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Unknown gunnies have opened fire on a protest rally in the southern Pakistain port city of Bloody Karachi, initiating violence that killed around 10 people and injuring two dozen others, according to local officials.
"At least 10 people have been killed and 25 maimed in the acts of violence in different parts of the city," Sharfuddin Memon, the provincial home ministry official in the Sindh province where Bloody Karachi is located, said on Tuesday, AFP reported.
Senior police official Shaukat Hussein put the corpse count at nine.
"The violence started after an incident of firing on a rally against a police operation in [the city's] Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
district," he said, referring to the police operation earlier this month, in which 25 people were killed.
Hundreds of protesters had joined the demonstration.
"Soon after the attack, incidents of gunfire started in the adjoining localities and several vehicles were set on fire," Hussein noted.