Violence roundup: KMC director among 10 shot dead in city
A police assistant-sub-inspector and a local PPP leader killed in the city.
KARACHI:
Around 10 people were gunned down in the city on Tuesday, including Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s education director Mohammad Shamim Khan.
Police said that three men entered the 51-year-old director’s office on Jail Road and shot him at least five times. Khan was taken to the Aga Khan Hospital but could not survive his injuries. According to Jamshed Quarters SHO Khushnood Javed, Khan was arrested for fraud by NAB but was found not guilty.
A Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sajjad Balti, 40, was gunned down in Disalwa Town by men outside a mechanic shop. His body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.
Mohammad Shafiq, an assistant-sub inspector who was posted at the North Nazimabad police station, was shot dead near Five Star Chowrangi. According to police, the victim was with his wife when he was shot multiple times.
Two young men were shot dead near Crown Cinema by four armed men. Their bodies were taken to the Civil Hospital, Karachi and later moved to the Edhi morgue for identification.
A 65-year-old man, Ahmed Ibrahim, was gunned down near Stadium Road by two armed men. The body of football player Javed Baloch, 55, was found from Bihar Colony. Docks police found the tortured body of a young man from Lyari River.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2012.
Around 10 people were gunned down in the city on Tuesday, including Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s education director Mohammad Shamim Khan.
Police said that three men entered the 51-year-old director’s office on Jail Road and shot him at least five times. Khan was taken to the Aga Khan Hospital but could not survive his injuries. According to Jamshed Quarters SHO Khushnood Javed, Khan was arrested for fraud by NAB but was found not guilty.
A Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sajjad Balti, 40, was gunned down in Disalwa Town by men outside a mechanic shop. His body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy.
Mohammad Shafiq, an assistant-sub inspector who was posted at the North Nazimabad police station, was shot dead near Five Star Chowrangi. According to police, the victim was with his wife when he was shot multiple times.
Two young men were shot dead near Crown Cinema by four armed men. Their bodies were taken to the Civil Hospital, Karachi and later moved to the Edhi morgue for identification.
A 65-year-old man, Ahmed Ibrahim, was gunned down near Stadium Road by two armed men. The body of football player Javed Baloch, 55, was found from Bihar Colony. Docks police found the tortured body of a young man from Lyari River.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2012.