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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Karachi violence claim 8 more lives

At least eight persons including a woman were killed in incidents of target killings in Karachi while another 15 persons were wounded here on Friday.

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Imran, a youth riding in a rickshaw in the Lyari area. The victim was resident of Turbat, Balochistan.
Unidentified gunmen riding on a motorbike opened fire on the vehicle of the contractor of the Benazir Shaheed Trauma Centre, Haji Ghafoor in the Garden area. As a result, the guard of Haji Ghafoor, Noveed was killed. In another incident, a dead body was found near Dhobi Ghat in the Garden area.

A passerby woman was killed when two drug selling groups opened clashed in Saeedabad in the Balida Town area. In a police encounter, Surjan a passerby was killed due to the firing of the robbers in the Guilistan Johar area.

In another incident in Gulistan Iqbal, a man was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire while a tortured dead body was found in Surjani Town.

More than 12 people were injured in different firing incidents in Qasba Colony, Orangi Town, Liaqatabad, Sharafi Goth, Shorab Goth and Shachal. The injured were shifted to government hospitals for medical assistance.
Three people were shot dead in Shah Latif, Surjani towns and Gulshan-e-Iqbal area. All three bodies remained unidentified.
In Baldia Town, a woman was killed in firing in Dadood Gaoth while her husband and two more persons sustained injuries.
Another person by the name Naveed was gunned down while two people were injured in Garden area. SANA