The police have registered a case against two unidentified men for shooting at a United Nations vehicle late Sunday night.
Armed men opened fire at the vehicle as it was traveling along Khayaban-e-Ghazi, within the jurisdiction of the Gizri police station. As a result, one of the passengers was wounded in the arm and had to be taken to Ziauddin Hospital in Clifton. Law enforcers said that his condition was stable.
An FIR has now been registered under sections 393 and 394 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of a UN security officer who was also in the vehicle at the time of the incident. The sections pertain to attempted robbery. SHO Asif Jameel quoted the complainant as saying that when the vehicle was intercepted, the driver stopped the car. Despite this, the suspects opened fire before fleeing. SHO Jameel said that the initial investigation has led law enforcers to believe that the culprits were trying to rob the vehicle and opened fire when the passengers resisted them.
This is the second attack on a UN vehicle within four months. Earlier in July this year, a foreign doctor was injured when unidentified men opened fire on a UN vehicle passing through Koochi Camp near Sohrab Goth. The Korangi police subsequently arrested the culprit, who was allegedly a member of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2012.
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