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India-Pakistan
Gunmen on bikes kill three despite pillion ban
2012-04-10
[Dawn] While police were on high alert and a ban was imposed on riding double in the city, there was no let-up in assassinations on Sunday, when at least three people were rubbed out by gunnies riding cycle of violences in different areas.

A 42-year-old man was killed and two workers of the Pakistain People's Party were maimed in separate incidents of firing in Orangi Town.

Ibrahim Mehroz Khan was returning home early Sunday morning when he was bumped off at Frontier Morr, said a duty officer at the Pirabad cop shoppe.

He said gunnies riding a motorbike fired at him and sped away. The victim sustained gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

The body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and handed over to the victim's family after medico-legal formalities, said the official.

He was a resident of Pareshan Chowk in the Mominabad area.

Shortly afterwards, two workers of the Pakistain People's Party were targeted within the remit of the Pirabad cop shoppe. District West PPP general secretary Siddique Akbar and his
associate Haroon were maimed in the attack near Kati Pahari.

Both sustained multiple bullet wounds and were shifted to a private hospital, police said.

The official quoted party sources as saying that Akbar was also the chairman of the party's district west Zakat committee.

Just a couple of days back, three senior workers of the PPP were killed in Orangi Town.

In Nazimabad No 2, a young man was rubbed out near Inquiry Office after being kidnapped, police said.

Four men riding two motorbikes brought a hostage with them near Zia-ul-Haq School and fired multiple shots at him before speeding away, said SP Liaquatabad Division Noman
Siddiqui.

Police said the body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

Another young man was killed near old Sabzi Mandi over what police described as personal enmity.

Shakeelur Rehman, 26, was returning home when he was targeted by gunnies riding a motorbike, police said.

They added that the victim worked as a munshi at a rickshaw stand.

The police quoted the victim's family as saying that he had personal enmity with his cousins.

A case (FIR 92/2012) was registered at the PIB cop shoppe under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 109 (abetment) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code against the victim's paternal cousins on a complaint of his father, Qareebur Rehman.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Well, if bans on pillion riding won't work, maybe they could try banning weapons.
Posted by: gorb   2012-04-10 00:07  

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