Karachi unrest: 3 killed in separate incidents, agency arrests 4 planning terror attacks

Bus carrying factory workers fired upon after factory owners refuse paying extortion money.

KARACHI: At least three people were killed in different areas of the city while an intelligence agency arrested four members of a banned organization plotting terrorist attacks, Express News reported on Wednesday.

The body of a 20-year-old factory worker was recovered from Nishtar Basti, while an auto workshop owner was killed at Qasba Mor in a firing incident.

Meanwhile, an intelligence agency arrested four suspected banned organization members allegedly plotting terrorist attacks and recovered arms and ammunition among other things from Lines Area in Karachi.

In a separate incident, a bus carrying 25 factory workers was fired upon by unidentified assailants after the owners of the factory refused to give extortion money, police said.

Two of the workers were injured in the incident that took place on Manghopir Road.

A suspected robber was also killed in a police encounter in the Patel Para area of the city.

Earlier, around 10 people were gunned down in the city on Tuesday, including Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s education director Mohammad Shamim Khan.