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32 more killed in Karachi
Posted on July 8, 2011
F.P. Karachi Office
KARACHI: At least 32 more people were killed on Thursday in the city, bringing the death toll to 63 in three days.Unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate firing on passenger coach near Metro Cinema in Orangi Town, which left two persons dead and five injured.Two mini buses were targeted by armed men at Banaras Chowk as a result five people were killed and 12 injured. One person was killed and three others were injured in Surjani Town.In Gulistan-e-Jauhar, unidentified armed men opened fire on a car and killed a man and left two injured. Two dead bodies were found from Garden. While an unidentified man was shot dead in Afridi colony. The people of Karachi are caught by fear due to killings and they are oppressed to leave their places.Parts of Karachi had been tense the whole day on Thursday and most of petrol stations remained closed over security concerns. Long queues of cars and motorcycles were seen in front of open petrol stations in the city. Government and private ambulance service had been busy to transfer the dead and injured to hospitals.According to reports, there had been grenade attacks on houses and shops, forcing the people to move to safe places.Rival ethnic groups have blamed each other of target attacks, but local police said criminal gangs were also behind the fresh wave of violence in the city. Residents in the city said that the police and paramilitary force have failed to check violence, but provincial police chief, Wajid Durrani, said the police are trying to lay heavy hands on miscreants. Meanwhile, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Raza Haroon said party’s MPAs in Sindh Assembly would peacefully stage a protest walk on Friday in front of Karachi Press Club (KPC) and the strike had been put off for the time being.Talking to media here, he said the terrorists are conducting armed attacks at citizens’ houses in Orangi Town, Qasba Colony and Gulbahar amid presence of police and the rangers, adding houses are being looted and passenger buses are being assailed with gunshots as there is none there to protect unarmed citizens.The law-enforcers are silent on the volatile situation at the behest of government, he alleged informing Sindh MPAs hailing from Muttahida will stage protest demonstration in front of Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Friday and march towards Chief Minister House
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Posted on July 8, 2011
F.P. Karachi Office
KARACHI: At least 32 more people were killed on Thursday in the city, bringing the death toll to 63 in three days.Unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate firing on passenger coach near Metro Cinema in Orangi Town, which left two persons dead and five injured.Two mini buses were targeted by armed men at Banaras Chowk as a result five people were killed and 12 injured. One person was killed and three others were injured in Surjani Town.In Gulistan-e-Jauhar, unidentified armed men opened fire on a car and killed a man and left two injured. Two dead bodies were found from Garden. While an unidentified man was shot dead in Afridi colony. The people of Karachi are caught by fear due to killings and they are oppressed to leave their places.Parts of Karachi had been tense the whole day on Thursday and most of petrol stations remained closed over security concerns. Long queues of cars and motorcycles were seen in front of open petrol stations in the city. Government and private ambulance service had been busy to transfer the dead and injured to hospitals.According to reports, there had been grenade attacks on houses and shops, forcing the people to move to safe places.Rival ethnic groups have blamed each other of target attacks, but local police said criminal gangs were also behind the fresh wave of violence in the city. Residents in the city said that the police and paramilitary force have failed to check violence, but provincial police chief, Wajid Durrani, said the police are trying to lay heavy hands on miscreants. Meanwhile, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Raza Haroon said party’s MPAs in Sindh Assembly would peacefully stage a protest walk on Friday in front of Karachi Press Club (KPC) and the strike had been put off for the time being.Talking to media here, he said the terrorists are conducting armed attacks at citizens’ houses in Orangi Town, Qasba Colony and Gulbahar amid presence of police and the rangers, adding houses are being looted and passenger buses are being assailed with gunshots as there is none there to protect unarmed citizens.The law-enforcers are silent on the volatile situation at the behest of government, he alleged informing Sindh MPAs hailing from Muttahida will stage protest demonstration in front of Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Friday and march towards Chief Minister House
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