At least 16 people, including six alleged gangsters of Lyari, were killed in the city on Sunday, police said.
Nehal Akhtar, 28, a former in charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s unit 118-A, and Noorul Huda, 30, were shot dead in Chishti Nagar in Orangi Town. Police said that they were shot by at least four men on two motorcycles.
A minibus driver, Raheem Zaib, 20, was sprayed with bullets by two motorcyclists near Qazzafi Chowk in Orangi Town.
DSP Rustam Nawaz said that the deceased was a Pashto-speaking resident of Qasba Colony and was not affiliated with any political party. An alleged drug peddler, Shabbir, 35, was shot dead near his house in the same area.
Another Pashtu-speaking man, Jamal Nasir, 31, was shot dead at Sector 1-D. Mohammad Nazeer, 50, was shot dead outside his home at Kunwari Colony. Rafiq, 24, son of Ghulam Haider, and Burhan Ahmed were shot in Liaquatabad as a wedding procession was reportedly passing nearby. Rafiq died on the spot.
Police said that the participants of the wedding had been firing in the air.
An undertaker at the Paposh Nagar graveyard, Munir Hussain, 38, was shot dead by unidentified men. Nizam, 40, was gunned down near Khuda ki Basti.
Munawar Ali, 42, was shot dead in Khamosh Colony. Bodies of two unidentified men were found from a garbage dump near the New MA Jinnah Road and another was found from a residential apartment in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Two more bodies were found by the police near the Mewashah graveyard while another was found from the Lea Market area.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2012.
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