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| One killed in gunfire as Shiite Muslims protest Karachi bombing |
| 2004-05-08 |
| Now they can protest this, too... One person was killed and two injured in gunfire in the Pakistani city of Karachi during a protest by Shiite Muslims over the deaths of 14 people in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque, hospital officials said. The incident occurred in the southern port city’s central Sohrab Goth neighbourhood as the Shiite protesters forced people in the Sunni dominated area to shut up shops following Friday’s bombing. Mohammad Dilbar, who received a bullet wound, told reporters: "The (gun)fire came from an unknown direction as I was passing by." Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of some 150 people who were pelting officers with stones and blocking traffic, police officer Ghulam Farid Khawaja told AFP. City police chief Tariq Jamil said "there were some injuries in the firing by unknown people" but denied that it was a sectarian violence. |
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