Four more men, including two young footballers, were killed in separate targeted attacks on Tuesday as killings on 'political and ethnic grounds' continued unabated in the metropolis.Police said assailants riding a cycle of violence and a car targeted two young footballers --Shabbir and Azam -- when they were heading towards Baloch Para on a cycle of violence to see an ailing relative of theirs.
They said the incident took place at Jahangir Road No 2 within the remit of the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe. The assailants fired on the two young men and beat feet.
The police shifted the maimed to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
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, where they died.
Following the incident, tension gripped Jahangir Road and Baloch Para and enraged people forced shopkeepers to shut their businesses. The protesters also burnt tyres on the main road. Extra police deployment was made in the area to control the situation.
Area DSP Qaiser Ali Shah said the assailants riding an Alto car and a cycle of violence were apparently following the victims.
He said the victims were the resident of Shafia Goth in Malir and they were going to meet their relatives in Baloch Para and were targeted at Jahangir Road No 2.
He said the suspects used 9mm pistols and both victims received three bullets each to their head, face and chest.
Both victims were footballers and represented the Bloody Karachi Port Trust team, one as centre forward and the other as midfielder.
They also played from different football clubs.
The area DSP said the two men had gone to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to inquire after the health of a relative, who had been discharged from the hospital and taken home in Baloch Para. They were heading to his house when they were targeted at Jehangir Road, he added.
The victims did not have any political affiliation and they did not have any criminal record, the police officer added.
The police suspected that it might be a case of killing on ethnic grounds.
Till late in the night, no case was registered at the Jamshed Quarters cop shoppe.