Unabated killings: Karachi’s violent wave claims 9 more lives

Twenty others injured in various incidents on Sunday.

KARACHI: As violence in the city remained unabated on Sunday, a total of nine people died and twenty others were injured in separate incidents throughout the day.

A young man was shot dead trying to stop fleeing robbers in Defence. Three other people were injured in the incident.

According to Clifton division SSP Nasir Aftab, the incident took place when Junaid Hameed and his friends who were buying snacks from Eat On restaurant in Phase-II, Defence, tried to catch the culprits who were trying to rob a woman.

The robbers opened indiscriminate fire to make good their escape killing Hameed in the process, Aftab said.

The deceased and injured Sheroz, Irfan and Qabil were taken to the Jinnah hospital.



Separately, a factory worker, Nasir Siddiq 25, was gunned down in Malir area when he was sitting at a burger shop. Police officials said that the motive behind the incident was yet to be ascertained.

In another incident, a bullet-riddled body of a young man was found near the Karimabad flyover within the limits of the Azizabad Police Station. Police officials said that deceased was yet to be identified.

Meanwhile, leader of Peoples Worker Union, Ehsan Zaidi, and his father, Mohsin Raza Zaidi, were wounded when unidentified men sprayed bullets on their car in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The victims were taken to nearby private hospital where doctors termed their condition stable.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th, 2013.