Karachi Violence: Five gunned down outside tea stall

KARACHI: Five men were killed late Thursday night by armed men on a motorcycle in Gulberg, Karachi, within the jurisdiction of the Federal B Area police station. The victims included Sajid, a prayer leader of Mustafa Masjid, which is situated in the locality, and Rafiq, a seminary teacher. The two were drinking tea at a dhabba when at least four armed men on two motorcycle drove up and sprayed bullets on them, as a result of which they were critically wounded. The owner of the shop, Gibrael, his brother Fida and an employee, Ameer, were also wounded. They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where all of them succumbed to their injuries.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 26^th, 2012.