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Constable in MQM-H vehicle killed
[Dawn] A policeman was killed on Saturday and another maimed in an attack on a Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi vehicle in Landhi, said officials and MQM-H leaders.

The police and MQM-H leaders differed over whether the vehicle was immediately part of a convoy led by MQM-H chief Afaq Ahmed when it came under an armed attack.

They agreed, however, that the attack also left a party activist maimed.

MQM-H leaders said that the attack was carried out when the convoy was on its way to Hyderabad to attend a wedding function. The jeep ahead of the convoy came under attack near Landhi 89, they said.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the police said that the vehicle attacked was not part of the convoy.

"The firing left two coppers and another person travelling in a jeep maimed," said Inspector Mazhar Iqbal Awan, the SHO of the Landhi cop shoppe.

He identified the coppers as Habibullah and Faisal Taimur, and the other victim, who was driving the jeep, as Munawwar Khan. All the three victims were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraudate Medical Centre, where 25-year-old constable Faisal died.

"There was no convoy... nor was the attacked jeep escorting any vehicle of Afaq Ahmed. The jeep was attacked by some gunnies while it was going to a fuel station for a refill. The victim coppers were deployed for Afaq Ahmed's security and they were originally posted at the Saudabad headquarters," he added.
Posted by: Fred 2012-03-26
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