Violence Roundup: Eight people killed in the city
A police team intercepted two dacoits near Cage Hotel in Qasba Colony and during an encounter.
KARACHI:
Eight people, including an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were killed in Karachi on Saturday. The MQM worker, 28-year-old Kashif Ahmed, was shot dead in Kharadar while another party activist, Siddique, was injured. According to Orangi Town SP Chaudhry Asad, a police team intercepted two dacoits near Cage Hotel in Qasba Colony and during an encounter, one of them was killed while the other sustained bullet wounds. Separately, a 25-year-old woman and her relative were shot dead in Lalabad, Landhi by a man whose marriage proposal the girl had allegedly turned down, said the police. In other incidents, a 50-year-old man was killed near the Lasbellah Bridge, a 20-year-old man was shot dead in Mauripur and a 40-year-old man was killed near the Old Sabzi Mandi. Malik Altaf, 60, was killed during an attempted dacoity in Aram Bagh.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2013.
Eight people, including an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were killed in Karachi on Saturday. The MQM worker, 28-year-old Kashif Ahmed, was shot dead in Kharadar while another party activist, Siddique, was injured. According to Orangi Town SP Chaudhry Asad, a police team intercepted two dacoits near Cage Hotel in Qasba Colony and during an encounter, one of them was killed while the other sustained bullet wounds. Separately, a 25-year-old woman and her relative were shot dead in Lalabad, Landhi by a man whose marriage proposal the girl had allegedly turned down, said the police. In other incidents, a 50-year-old man was killed near the Lasbellah Bridge, a 20-year-old man was shot dead in Mauripur and a 40-year-old man was killed near the Old Sabzi Mandi. Malik Altaf, 60, was killed during an attempted dacoity in Aram Bagh.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2013.