Female school owner hit by bullet in Karachi
The bullet injured her.
The incident is fresh in a wave of attacks on schools in Orangi Town. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
A woman was struck by a stray bullet in the Orangi town area of Karachi, reported Express News on Thursday.
According to officials at the Iqbal Market police station, Rehana Attaur Rehman was struck in her knee after the bullet pierced through a door curtain.
Earlier, two children were hurt on May 25 when unidentified men lobbed a ball packed with explosives at a school in Orangi Town and then sped off.
On March 30, Abdul Rasheed Khan, the principal of a private secondary school in Baldia’s Ittehad Town, was killed and several children, including his daughter, hurt when a bomb was thrown at the institution after which armed men stormed it and opened fire.
Correction: An earlier version of the article incorrectly mentioned that the woman had been killed. The error is regretted.
A woman was struck by a stray bullet in the Orangi town area of Karachi, reported Express News on Thursday.
According to officials at the Iqbal Market police station, Rehana Attaur Rehman was struck in her knee after the bullet pierced through a door curtain.
Earlier, two children were hurt on May 25 when unidentified men lobbed a ball packed with explosives at a school in Orangi Town and then sped off.
On March 30, Abdul Rasheed Khan, the principal of a private secondary school in Baldia’s Ittehad Town, was killed and several children, including his daughter, hurt when a bomb was thrown at the institution after which armed men stormed it and opened fire.
Correction: An earlier version of the article incorrectly mentioned that the woman had been killed. The error is regretted.