KARACHI: Eight more people, including activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Awami National Party, were killed in different parts of the city on Wednesday, bringing to 16 the number of people who have fallen victim to target killings during the past three days.
Late on Wednesday night, two young men were wounded critically when they were spayed with bullets by assailants riding motorcycles in Orangi Townís Sector 10. Police said Raza Idrees, 24, and Sarfaraz Ali, 22, were taken to the Qatar Hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries. Both the victims were said to be Urdu-speaking. Tension gripped the area after the double murder.
Earlier in the day, six people were gunned down in various parts of the city. The dead included Hazrat Khan, the general secretary of the ANPís Sohrab Goth Ward Office, who was targeted in Lasi Goth. Minutes later, MQM activist Maama Shaboo was shot dead in a street opposite to Ayub Goth in the Sohrab Goth area.
Armed men later attacked several people in the Mohajir Chowk area in the Mominabad police limits, leaving four MQM activists injured, three of whom later died.
In the New Town police limits, six people resorted to firing on the University Road near the old Sabzi Mandi, during which 45-year-old Saquib Nadeem was killed.
On Tuesday, four men, including three MQM workers, lost their lives in incidents of target killings. A day earlier, MQM-H Vice-Chairman Akhtar Hussain was among the four people who fell prey to target killings in Karachi.
