The police mobile which was attacked on Sunday evening. PHOTO: EXPRESS/MOHAMMAD SAQIB
Express News correspondent Nadeem Ahmed said that unidentified armed men first fired at the police van before lobbing a grenade at it. The blast destroyed the van and killed three police officials. Police recovered several casings of 9mm bullets near the attack site.
Ahmed added that the van was parked near Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) chief Afaq Ahmed’s house.
A second police van parked near the Landhi Hospital square was attacked with guns, in which three officials were shot dead.
The two attacks took place within minutes of each other.
Ahmed added that a passerby had also been injured in the attack.
The dead were shifted to Jinnah Hospital for post mortem.
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah took notice of the attack on police officials and offered his condolences to their families. He said that their deaths will not go in vain.
MQM MPA attacked
In a separate incident, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MPA Mohammad Kamran escaped an attack on his car in North Karachi.
Kamran was traveling along with his guard when his car was attacked by unidentified armed men. While Kamran escaped the attack unhurt, one his guards was reportedly injured.
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ET is really silly and rubbish, thy moderate comments in such a way tht anti mutahida comments will never appear here. Afaq released from ECL and attacked next day.. who to b blamed first... common sense ?
rival of Muhajir Qoumi Movement are not lesser than Taliban. They don't have any tolerance for others to do politics in karachi.
At least police officals?
Please correct your editing.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Hence, chief sahib good!
So sad,, life has become so cheap.
Government busy in Sindh Festival
@Azi: The biggest fault which inflicts ordinary people here is their weakness to depend too much on "God" to sort out each and everything for us. It's time that we realized the fact that gods have no interest in petty little things like who's doing what some where in some back-lane of a place called Karachi or Sindh or Pakistan. We must muster all the courage and fix the malaise that affect our lives, that's the only way to improve the conditions here.
Jiye bhutto even if everyone else in Sindh dies, RIP soldiers of this nation.