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India-Pakistan
Karachi Korpse Kount
2012-04-01
KARACHI: Another eight people lost their lives on Saturday in different parts of Karachi.

In overnight raids across the city, police and rangers arrested as many as 150 suspects, including political workers. The law-enforcement agencies also claim to have recovered heavy cache of weapons from suspects. Situation remained tense due to firing incidents across the city and people preferred to stay indoors and public transport remained off the roads.

Meanwhile, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Hussain Wassan said some elements were creating law and order situation under the garb of political parties in the city. Talking to a delegation of prominent citizens, he said that he had ordered the police and rangers to take action against the miscreants and arrest them without any discrimination.

A fresh wave of violence gripped Orangi Town and its adjoining areas where as many as seven people were shot dead on Saturday.

Reports revealed that unidentified gunmen killed four people in Banaras, including three of a family. Police said the assailants had opened fired on people at Metro Cinema Bridge, injuring five people. The injured were rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where three of them succumbed to their injuries. The deceased were identified as Hasan, Waseem and Kamaluddin. Nadir, Jamal and Nadeem sustained bullet injuries.

In another incident, on Banaras Bridge unidentified attackers opened fire on the residents of Orangi Town. Two people, Arif and Kamal, lost their lives, while another five sustained bullet injuries. The firing incidents took place after the killing of two political workers in the surrounding areas of Orangi Town.

In Frontier Colony, another man Sami Kamal was gunned down and several others were wounded.

The funeral prayers of Waseem and Hasan were offered in Liaquatabad and were laid to rest in Paposh Nagar graveyard. A large number of people, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders, took part in the funeral prayers.

Separately, a coach driver Janan Khan (36) was gunned down near UP Mor. He was a resident of Landhi.
Posted by:Steve White

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